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Show not cause thee to break thy vow salt CHAEMED BY A SNAKE the prophet, holding his hand to the serpent's mouth. The serpent bit him, INSTRUCTIVE READINQ FOR OUR but he sucked the wound with his lips THE HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF MISS PAULINE BROWNE. and spat the , venom on the ground. BOYS AND GIRLS.' And on that very spot there sprang up a which combines within itself Sleets a Rattler Seyen feet ItOng fifr Bebelllons Child A Surprise tor theplant venom of the serpent and compasHidden In a Clump of White flowers Umra More Than He Bargained sion of the Men call this prophet. It Exerted a Welxd Fascination' on ; Their Lonjc Missing Ron Origin of tobacco. name the by plant the Girl. mt Tobacco. ERPENTSare often Was Their IiOng Aliasing Son. charmed by human Y baby's gone and Frank Sell en had a quarrel with hia named herself! parents, near Shandaken, beings, but a snake N. Y a dozI that turns the ta Who erer heard en years kago, when a boy of fifteen, bles and hypnotizes the like? and immediately left for parts unThe cutest, quaint- known. people is a freak. Nothing was heard from him,: A est fancy of the and he was rattlesnake, near as dead, until' mourned blessed Simona, a town In his identity was revealed in a ragged Florida, recently tyke! tramp; who applied for food at the I asked her what abode performed this re of the aged parents, twenty mile markable feat This she called herself from his former home, recently. snake hypnotized and gazed into Mr. and Mrs. Sellen were partaking" Miss Pauline Browne, and had It jaot came ' )Ot her bright eyes as she looked up and of their evening meal when therea man been the for timely arrival cf b? from a door at the kitchen rap 'brother would she doubtless have lost Goo." frankly said: "Ah clad In rags, who asked for something her life. of remaining1 iLh. Goo! A Chinese baby! Noir, who Is to eat and the privilege Mis3 Browne went for a short walk over in barn. the night In the fields to there would have guessed wildflowers. "We will give you a bite," said the .She did not returngather Those Chinese when of feet the tiny expected and paths ' old farmer, "but you cannot stay over her became had anxious. Her family babyland pressed? Come in." brother Who would have thought those wide night on these premises. armed a with Arthur, shotgun, While the tramp was eagerly devour- !set out in and blue and speculative eyes of her. search which Mrs. Sellen had preAfter a time he saw the girl in the Had looked upon the beauties of a Mon- ing the foodhim she for Inquired: suddenly pared distance gol paradise? sitting on the grass. He at "What is your name?" once noticed the curious manner in The tramp looked sharply at his iniThe stork that brought the baby to our which she seemed to be swaying to and quirer for a moment and then replied: fro, as if in time to music. He ap house that summer day vJust paused to rest his wings a bit, then "For years I have been an outcast and proached cautiously and, peering over wanderer and have not used my name." her shoulder, was filled with horror turned and flew away; "My God!" exclaimed the woman. "Is when he saw the head of a huge rattlefWe might have asked him whence she this Frank Sellen, our long lost boy?" snake came, but no one ever knew waving from side to side directly am said the "I tramp, Frank Sellen," Until she answered me and in front of her. bursting into tears. dubbed herself "Ah Goo." Arthur Browne moved cautiously to His Identity sufllclently revealed, the .one side, raised his and taking What boots? She's ours now, although wandered was welcomed back Into the careful aim shot off thegun of the rathead old household, past differences were she wandered from afar, At the sound of the explohe bears little tlesnake. ,And she'll forget the kingdom where forgotten, and sion the girl shrieked and fell to the semblance to the tramp of yesterday. eternal flowers are ground unconscious. !For love that we shall give her in this Later she said she wandered through motherland that's new, A Now Earth. the fields picking flowers until, growJLnd one day we will tell her how she Margaret B. Sangster recently cited; ing tired, she had seated herself in front raaed herself "Ah Goo." an apt illustration of the change effectof the clump of white flowers which she ed by the new birth. She said: Intended to gather. She admired their At Any Cot. It happened not long ago, that aj beauty and kept her eyes fixed upon In wrath and tears Edith Howlett had friend of mine, who had been very; them until gradually she began to feel 'one to bed. She had been tucked in d all her life, had her eyes an uncontrollable drowsiness creeping once, given a drink twice, kissed fitted with glasses which have given! over her, such as one experiences after three times, and the lamp had her a new sense of the wonderful world gazing fixedly at the embers of a dying Jbeen extinguished, but the spark of she lives in. fire. still burned in her childish soul. The first time this friend went to Presently, although conscious that "Mamma," she cried. new glasses had reflowers wer pure white, they began church after the the "Go to sleep, Edith," her mother said, vealed to her the manner of to on the colors of the rainbow the take place teternly; "I shall not come in there world was, she felt embarrassed at seeand lose their outline. From this again.'-so much and so clearly. Walking Iridescent mass at regular intervals a ing "I want a drink, mamma." Edith through the aisle to her pew, she be- -, tongue of living flame darted forth that pleaded. the first time, though she had almost blinded her with its brilliancy. "You've had ftro brinks already. held for heard him preach for years, the benevo-- . She was possessed with a feeling of INow 50 to sleep." pastor. She saw the, horror and had a presentiment of evil, There was a brief silence, and then lent face ofandtheelders and deacons. The yet was powerless to use her voice or choir, too, !TMlth. tried again. How long she was new glasses had introduced her to a move her limbs. . "Mamma, come and kiss me new world simply by revealing to her under this extraordinary influence she what had always been there. had no idea. Nor was she conscious "You've been kissed t, dear, No on the of its nature till, coming to herself after change had been wrought I come in again, so go to not shall (n world and her environment remained the shock of the gunshot had thrown iBleep at once like a good girl." she saw the dead There was another pause, while the what it long had been. But all was her into a faint, " her. Revelation had been snake. flonely child cudgeled .her , little brain altered to and she could truly , say, The rattlesnake proved to be, a mongranted, tfor a new jrnd1p-nt MWhereas was now I I see!" of its kind. Putting the dismemster blind, "Mamma," she cried at last, "please Something like this, happens when bered head on to the body it measured fcfcme in; I'm so hungry." :. : one who has never realized the loving an even seven feet in length. The You cannot have anything to eat , God was of to eighteen' suddenly awakens body in its largest part and If I come in there again," the kindness sixa of Horn. Itam's circumference. it. had in sense, It inches another EAid, with "rising chbler. will "it....... . . i teen rattles and a button, indicating pe to gi you a good spanning!" that the serpent was at least seventeen More Than" He Bargained For. There a longer pause, and Just as , The little It began to look as If the evening's bat daughter of years old. jtle were over, the.' child's voice was Cashier Ham,! of the ' Hieard. Motormen .Wear ftabbera. bank, was playing around the vaults again. ..' ' une when N. so P. President she ""Mamma." day recently, pleaded. ."I'm "Doesn't that wear out your shoe? Honely In here. Please come in and Lllienthal, who delights in amusement asked the inquisitive passenger. for children, took her into the great vfepank me!"- - Harper's Magazine. He was standing on the platform of treasure box to show her the great; a trolley car watching the motarman sacks of coin. On the floor lay a sack kick the striker of the gong which pro's containing $20,000 in gold coin. jected? a few inches abcnre- the floor of Everyone who has read Prof essor ex-; is of full ."That sack gold," he "Studies of ; Childhood" r must tie platform. The tattoo the motcr-ma- n (acknowledge the yimerlcan child to ha plained, "and now, my little girl. If kept up was almost constant and can It have it." his heavy foot arose and fell, wfth great subject worthy of study. But the you carry you folio wing delicious production which The little girl toddled; over to it, regularity as- wagons, small boys and rwe received from the medical man fo grasped it with both hands, and to Mr.. pedestrians scurried out of the way wugm 11. was ecui euuwo, wo iuima, um Lllienthal's consternation she picked it of the flying car. y He did not reply at once to the- quesIthe child mind In this country Is up and trotted out of the vault with it. equally interesting. The letter Is writ-jte- n He didn't know that she had been' tion of the inquisitive passenger, as at waiting at the next corner upon small pink paper, ornamented raised" in the country, where big stonesi woman was tohad' shut off the current and were he wood of and we tran and logs nrith a picture of a pony, and among" her toys.' on brakes the Sscribe it verbatim, omitting only names How Mr. Lllienthal. got out of his conconsiderably, arid; put to think of. But other had not thus tract books the! is the but of things known; .and adresses: car had started the up again he . I would to very bank fail to show $20,000 to the credit when "Dear Dr. foot and placed it on pleased if you would let me havo a Baby of little Miss Ham. San Francisco1 ralsedl his right so. that theof dashboard on rail the 4th the , want Post. it for one guinea. We overshoe could arctic of We - of the heavy Febry for Mother's birthday. ; seen. be would like it fatand Bonny, with blue IIow to Live Iong. are "See that'rubber?" he asked. "Well, We Children hair. al-fair An eminent physician,, himself eyes and j I've worn it all winter. Do you see : to her oursely please mo3t eighty years old, yet looking igolng )to give it V in It?" holes once. Yours sincerely. scarcely more than fifty, recently said: any vsanswer at admitted The inquisitive passenger . P. S Which waold be "If I were asked to give the ingredients-o.Archie " it was practically aa sound as the or a that Girl?" a , an elixir that would insure long Iife, Cheaper Boy ; We commend this to' the notice of. I should say: 'Take of exercise; day It came out of the factory, plenty l. "Well, there you are," said the Professor Sully. ..The P. S. Is Sellght-itti- plain and wholesome food, and baths,) who had long since put his nn4 who is there shall answer the and be temperate in all things., And: on the platform and was of the back The foot ag "momentous question? If my patient was an honest man or an, we add, honest woman, as the case might be,f energetically pounding away at the yrxiter the eldest child n,y out is 7. We are honored .with the5 atjuaint-iasee'and would follow my directions as hon-- i gong with it, "This bell don't wear one-say, a youns lady aged rho one estly as possible, and hadn't any or--; a rubber sole at all, but a leather don't I no know time. it don't last day remarked: ganlc disease, he and she would live, such our is it Is, but she goes through a heavy why why bOy dear, to a good and "Father, old age,! An unpleasant, common little thing?" and would be fair to look upon until'1 leather sole in a few weeks, but a rubber will last all winter." And he But this only shows from wtiat dif- the end." banged away at the bell as though ferent points of view children i?.ay lok to make a hole in his shoe, At the same thing. London Lancet. What Happens When Ton I4cht a Fire.. striving, Chronicle. The following is a scientific descrip-'- 1 Chicago Tobacco. Tne Or! tlon of what happens when you light The night of Cyelomanla. The origin of tobacco is thus given in a fire: The phosphorus on a match is A cyclist was run down by a brother raised an old Arabic legend, reported in the friction to a by of temperature wheel in an avenue of the Bois V 150 degrees Fahrenheit, at which it ig-- i of the Conte Arabe: de Boulogne. He fainted, and a passerthe nltea. It raises the The prophet was taking a stroll instiff of the! temperature ran to his assistance, and soon aftersaw a serpent if it be a sulphur match, to1 by country when he on sulphur, wards the injured man recovered conthe ground. He 500 degreeswhen the with cold, lying sulphur begins sciousness. "Where- - ami I?" he inThe sulphur raises the heat compassionately took it up and warmed "You have been knocked down It in hl3 bosom; When the serpent had degrees, when the wood takes up quired. a cyclist, who made off as soon as recovered It. said: ."Divine Prophet, the work and produces a temperature' by he had assured himself that his malisten. I am now going to bite, thee.'.' of 1,000 degrees, at which the coal Ig- chine was none the worse for. the colli', ., nites. "Why, pray?" Inquired Mohammed. sion." The victim with difficulty lifted mine "Because thy race persecutes his head, and inquired: "Can you tell and tries to stamp it out." The wonderful Mme. de Pompadour, me the name of the maker?" Le Hire. "But does not thy race, too, 'make was not so extraordinarily beautiful.; was the She owned her success to wit, tact and perpetual war against mine?" Left on the Cars. canst thou, pleasing manners. Her chief beautyj prophet's rejoinder. "How room of the elevated ,The besides, be so ungrateful, and so soon was her hair, which, to increase her road system In New York receives forget that I saved thy life?" height, she wore in the style that now about 30,000 miscellaneous deposits a "There Is no such thing as gratitude bears her name. year. Nearly 10 per cent are' umbrellas ,upon this earth," replied the serpent; and ranking second are the satchels. Gen. Pompus I am to speak at a About "and If I were now to spare thee, the articles are called for, and I want ypu to and thehalf either thou or another of thy race banqnet after remainder, held for srculd Hill ma. By Allah, I Ehall bits write my epeech for me. Scribe What six months or a year, being to tha according 7 do you take oe for rsJua, are sold at auction. THE SUNSHINE OF PAST AGES. How It Was Burled In the Earth for COENER. iCHILDKEN'S . . . - I - 1 little ; to-d- ay ay ht re-(belll- on - " t." good-inigSr- , good-nigh- t.-- j ht, : ld Anglo-Californ- . - . ia ; ; - Sul-Uy- - ; - . - ''- V. - ; - I - the-sol- . - -- ' ; . . a . Man'H Fate.- - ; - of -- - well-temper- ed ' ; to-burn- . to-80- ' - ' : I . lost-artic- le . , . I to-nig- ht, i gas-fitt- er "If th'cajfc&ct sworn br Allah, I will f - VI want to praise Hood's Biritpsr My halth run down, and I had th After that, my heart and nervous were badly affected, so that I could tyi cct ray own work. Our physician pave tsome help, but did not cure. I ec!3ea to try Hood's .Sarsaparilla. Soon Iv . . u Jt - .11 l Which? Mr. Young Spratts sat In Miss Irene Gazzam's parlor, anxiously awaiting the young lady. She had promised him her answer that night, and he was wondering whether that answer would make him the happiest of mortal men or plunge him in misery. As she delayed her coming he muse "I wonder if she is making up her complexion or her mind." Judge. . 1 Hood's Pills with Hood,'i BarMptrIliR tnd they have done me much food l vrlU not be without them, k have taken 13 bottles of Hood's Saraapar ilia, and throneK the blessing of God, it has ae I worked aa hard as everj the cured past iuc,.' mer, and I am thankful to say 1 weU. Hood's Pills when taken witla Hood's Sarsaparilla help very much." i That Is, Pleasant Taste. "This is a remarkably high flavored roast," said the king of Mbwpka. "It Is from that late Chicago Individual," said the purveyor-in-chie"I am really surprised. That Boston Missionary told me explicitly and dis f. Mrs. M. M. Messknqer, Freehold xi Chicago people were utter- tinctly that ly devoid of taste." Indianapolis Tcrur- - Penn auu many oiner cures prove thtt n n nal. Quite Another Story. She "So she wouldn't have you?" He (gloomily) "No." She "Wasn't her father on your . 1 side?" -- Pick Me Up. dark-skinne- eareP&5 , Denver Directory. The Denver tent AND AWNING CO. TTTTTTx PROCTEi'S 1728 WTEKT ORE SACKS LAWRENCE ST. DEMYERBLIIEPRlKTi,.g?i&a of MINING, PRINTIKfl MACHINIST Repairs etc' Pips threading and cutUui, Ireigbt III Nock eloyafcors. Oarsido. & a. 1415-1-T AMERICAN HOUSE 1! KSfjrs.'Ss-Hotel'' "Jjenver's Old hehW and Wood Worlinsr Machinery . Tuecond of all kin tie bonht and wild. B. (II 111 II U band) Co. J5'JS Lawrence. Work 6 St Market i. I HelIo, there r Machinery , "Hello." "Is that you. Missfs Casey?" "It is." "Whin yes git t'rongh wld yer dress- 'maker, would yer molnd slndin' her acrost the way to me? I want to put a Mary of Mldiclne collar to my sthriped waist." Truth. STEAM AIID HOT WATER HEATIKG a J. 1425 B.EILLY, CUK11S PIAIIOS AND ORGANS Kh4 Catalogue free. Knight MubIc Co., L508-1- 0 Arapahoe Office, Albany Sampline Worka. QTTC flDC Bote! Pocket Block, Peurer. mailed DlAILUnC tr. book, valuable to ore shipper, e PUTI flV'CDQ rLUllt.no solicited. U. B. Kitnc, ETI Funeral Deaisis, Decora-Uliona, etc. Correspondent F'orist, 62816th StTel.l8j SJSSfSi GRAVEL ROOFINC She Got One Back. 'J nr y Miller to, U 4c 1509 ' Mt. 81 FMS ; 1(W7-16- 3 ; tor 9.00. Send your work to Oat o Stock. . j :: "I understand that you- hare relfcs of - ut ' SECOND HARD MACHINERY mi. ENGINES, BOILERS, HOISTKRS, STAMP the war for sale my little man," said MILLS, HUNTINGTONS, PUMPS, KT0. DENVER MINING MACHINERI mB the Northern tourist to the "We did have' replied; the boy "but CO., 1723 WAZEB STREET, DENVEK. they have bought us out, an' the swords E. E. BURtmGAMnrS daddy buried last week wont git rusted fore summer f Atlanta Constitution. ASSAY OFFICE JXoaSSSSV tow-hea- d. d1 Strais:e. But , Established In Ooiorado,. 1866 Samples hy mail or express will receive prompt and careful attentloa Tiik , SILVER B0LU0N Visitor Well, Freddy bow many GOLD AND Melted end, AayaLor Pare hd. ReSaed, brothers have you?" : 1736 snd 17 Uvrcnce St. PENTEfcV COLOt FreddyI have one,' but my sister Mistu. THE COMPANY' PAYS- THC FHKlCHf Stella has two. Dn their new ateel horae tHVox. Will Is. how are Who as sate thatr 25 tons of rock "Why, feet eaoh.ahitt. Is jut they?" tad oitreliable aa an nain' It oaa.bepaoksd anrwaare "Me and. my brother. Philadelphia A a jaclt ean go. No oos wbasls at , , - ! oommon-eena- e m SOU , I!nq.ulrer. ' than-your.- ' " ! Makine Prosreae. Miss Young (enthusiastically) 1,1 ID I a iron and ateal and will bsai wrought before- breaking Over 860 In some running 6 years without eaa ? W dollar's expense. We60make 16 300 V aoiaw- - prioea, $20. 11 U J "Oh. - 1 do-I- n ed - ; Not in her first youth, you know, but " Miss Stajrer "No: but. from what I ;have learned about her,. I should think she must be well on in her second child tndon hood-.- " Judge. 1 Notlalns Knowls ; tle water passes underneath."Truth. just the least little grease, WTiea cooked through put between two thinj Hot Not on a Salary Basis. pieces of white cloth and, apply ta the "It must take a good deal aching place. You will: be surprised to ,ofStranger , f. money to run this town." learn how soon you will be relieved of; Resident we've "Well, got Bixtv- your pain. Sometimes- it will cure ob- -j stlnate cases of headache by applying:' eight aldermen. You can figure It up at the base of the brain.. It ia vastly' .yourself." Chicago Tribune, better than wet cloths r - 1 SURE Kzaminatioa and Advice a to Patentability to fl tor "InTentors Guide, or How IX Oia y g A B R tl 1 .1 s Wahlngoa. ft ran tlon. Send PaXan. . get to New To ; York quickl-y- Did She Tell r take the Burlington's "How gray you are Pigmy Porker. Some specimens, of the smallest getting lately, my dear. Why. I hava known species of hogs are now quar- iUot a single gray hair." tered at the London zoological gardens. Miss Passee "So I perceUe. Do . tell They came from the desert regions of. me what you' use." Free Press. Miss Antique Australia and are known as "the pigmy hogs of the antipodes. They are well As a Last Resort. formed, frisky little porkers, the very ' Weary Watkins "Good; cold water largest and. heaviest in the lot (which, is the best drink, after all." are all full grown) not being larger) Dismal Dawson "Alter all the than a muskrat. These zoological cu- booze ' is Indianapolis rios are real hogs, and should not be Journal. gone; yes." :! confounded with the "Guinea pigs, which are a species of rodent. ....Certain Evidence. Flyer." The most Invincible thing in the world is moral genius. The timid lose their faith on the slightest provocation. To feel and see all the world's evils and to hold on to one's faith In goodness and justice is moral genius. This is the faith against which the gates of hell shall not prevail. M. Mana arian. "Do you know my wife?" "No. I have not that pleasure." "Pleasure? 'Now I knew that you don't know her." Judge & SJ f Ft ft vl f in your closet." ; "Oh. no. It Isn't awful till it cornea out." Detroit Tribune, R. and G. Col. point In Colorado. i r : Arrives in Chicago 8:20 a. m. in time to connect with all the fast trains for New BT. roor-in- g Boston, Philadelphia, u Umore Washington and cities. other eastern Tickets via the Bnrttol ton are on sale at all v ticket omcj ottb & R. Q. and Ool. Midlaaa - cow-po- n railroads. Aent, Denver. liwh Fmin. 'Pastes Good. tn tima. Pold by dmrtHsta. I 3. W. VALLEItT, General And the Neighbors see It. "It must be awful to have a ikeleton traW trains from Interior I ' Vaa-Ubul- ed Biggest and best over tbe bigjr1 an Dzll railroad between DenTer and Chicago. Leaves Denver t S:WP-m-v.. after arrival of theMid. ed &nla. TKC BO-SAN-K- O'S j Moral t Mlsa Fourteen (reading from newstUIJ sm and BUad,lleedins or Protrndint paper) "Mamma, why do they call a ttohiag REMEDY. Dr. PILE lof ,&borba tumors. A pout Wa cur. Circui.r.l free. r" drunkard's nose a lighthouse?" Ko.. IrasKlaM.leaWL OB. lisaSAXKO, raJUa,Ia. Mamma (well posted on matters of the world) "Because, my child, so litPATEriTSJRADElARKS A so-call- l,,;j!:I!:r.!'!l?51'r?:s: Thompson's Eye Paler. CURE for PILES S XAke 7 up. Bend for an illustrated circular 'io-S'Stt- j Hot Fancake for Tour Acbea "A hot pancake for an aching; baofct"" Did you ever try one? Just mix up some flour and water in a. thick batter and fry on a r griddle aa. though you were preparing it to eat,, only use! . Aiapahoe St. TaL "Ton look as If Mrs. Skinner was evidently anxious SEALS, RUBBER STAMPSKJ; at. P. t). hot to say something disagreeable to the Worka Mfg. Co., 1518 Lawrence boarder In arrears. . TRUSSES, CRUTCHES " butter wouldn't melt in your St. James. 1508 Curtis street. Established lt.74 mouth." etc Stock Bet Envelopes a epecialtyi The WeaUtrr The boarder hi arrears glanced cas- DADCDRflYCQ DUAlO rHrCn Envelope and Box Mfg. Co., cor. 14th and Arapahoe ually round the table and murmured: OEIIVER MUSIC CO.r.'.M'SS "Depends on the butter." Mrs. Skinner thereupon turned 'the &oods. Catalogue free. Champa Btrset to bicycles. ra-subject BLITZ, THE JEWELER, JS1 watok Urn " : cold-blood- Blood Purifier. iJUl drnralrta tL HOQdS Pills Ifveesslty the Mother of Invention. - Blazing black eyes: and the rich; warm women; colors which have to wear suggest energy and brll liance and no end of Intellect; Men look into such eyes and seem notttobei able. to. see below the surface. They have not the pleasure of a long; deep gaze Into immeasurable depths. And' so they think her designing and clever.-anperhaps (God save the mark I) ' even intellectual, when, perhaps, she has a wealth of love and devotion 'and! hero-isstored up beyond the impulsive disposition and those dazzling- black: eyes, which would do and dare more' in:' a minute for some man she had set' that great heart of hers upon tranquil blonde would forty years. A mere question of pigr ment in the eye has settled many a; man's fate in life and established; himr with a wife who turned out tobe very! different from the girl he- fondly thought he was getting." v Sarsaparilla Is the One True behind." Prepared only by C. L Hood & Co., Lowell, Kasi. "No He (more gloomily) f rao-torm- ah, ' , People find just the help they 0 Hood's in need, Samparllla. ft finishes the desired strength by fyinsr, vitalizing- and enriching Vl, blood, and thus builds up the ccrreg tones the stomach and reukts y ' whole system. Read this: "Ah, to be sure." was the reply. "Well, then, don't say anything to her at all. Just detain her till I return," and he rushed out, while the clerk looked longingly at a pile driver across the street. St. Paul Dispatch. that men alin a confidence ways instinctively; put girl with blue eyes, and have their suspicions of the girl with brilliant black ones, and will you kindly tell me why?" writes Lillian Beir in the Ladies Home Journal. "Is It that the limpid blue eye, transparent and gentle, suggests' all the soft, womanly virtues, and because he thinks he1 can see through It, clear down into that blue-eyed girl's soul, that she is the kind of a girl he fancies she Is? I think It is, but some of the greatest little frauds I know are the purry,.kit-ten- y girls with big, innocent eyes. "Did you ever notice- . eight-year-o- clerk, Question of Pigment ITas Settled ; Many , to-Vidg- & Co. they-wer- near-sighte- ; Smith " i good-mig- 1 "Yes, but how am I to know who your wife Is?" asked the surprised ; I to-d- "If my wife comes in here tell her to wait for me, please," said Jones, rushing Into the big dry goods store of Future Resurrection. The teacher bade me write an essay upon "Coal." I studied the encyclopedia until my head was in a whirl with big words like "amorphous substance," "bituminous coal," "lignite and cannel coal," and they all contained "carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen," and then I did not know one single thing about coal, and so I asked mamma: . "What is coal, any way?" "It is the sunshine of past ages," said she, and then she told me so pretty a story that I thought I would write it for "Our Boys and Girls" to read. Ages and ages ago, when the earth was young, and man had not yet begun to live on it, because as yet the conditions were not favorable to the life that mankind needs, monster fishes ewcscx in the slimy seas and giant animals stalked over and through the marshy lands. Monster trees grew from the sloppy, moist ground, while grasses taller than we ever saw, and plants with huge stems and gigantic leaves, grew beneath their branches. Then, as now, rain fell, clouds floated by and the bright sunshine was over all. The brighter the sunshine, the ranker and taller grew the trees, the grasses, the ferns and the weeds. Year after year they grew and blossomed and died, over and over again, Just as plants and trees do now. Again and again, in those ages, great earthquakes Occurred, and the waters woul d roll In places where they were not before, and where they were once would be bare ground. The giant trees and the plants beneath them would be packed and buried in the mud and would see the sunshine no more. Over and over again, trees and grasses, plants land ferns, grew in the sunshine; over and over e buried and packed again down in the darkness, ever undergoing chemical changes. Ages came and went, and finally man, the crowning work of the Creator, appeared upon the scn. Centuries came and went before he dis covered the burled sunshine. Many are the legends as to how and when he first learned of the warmth imprisoned in the black t mineral, now and then, found above the ground. As every good deed sooner or later leaves Its good record on the annals of time, so the short lives of the tiniest ferns, of ages ago are now making light and happiness in many a home that would b dark, cold and gloomy had not the Creator in his wisdom, ages and ages ago, buried the sunshine In earth's dark bosom, to lie until such time as He was ready to bring it again to the light of day. Acella C. Fenton in Philadelphia Times. COLOR OF WOMEN'S EYES. r "Only One Girl in th World for Mo." Iv-.i-i H.--" j k.r.LUt ALL II |