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Show the woodshed, kji on h thimble And IS THE ODD COHN E1L went to il sewing circle. When she came home at dusk, she found a squirming bag ou ber front SOME STRANGE. QUEER AND porch, and a note from Mrs. Smith CURIOUS PHASES OF LIFE. tucked under the door. It read: Aunt FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. j Nabby says she wouldn't spare Tim- otby to anybody but you, but she has two kittens most as big, so you may have him." She carried In the bag and emptied out Timothy. He was. indeed, the very moral of Tom, and her heart warmed to him at once, in spite of the two kittens down celler and the old cat in the woodshed. Going on to the back porch later, she found there a box with sluts nailed over the top, and peering in, caw two half grown Maltese cats. A roughly scrawled paper lay on the box. I'm proper sorry your cat got killed by my rat p!zen, so I've brought you two more Malties. I hope this will make it all right. John Wilson. Mattie W. Baker In Youth's Companion. "Sis for Out," Story for tlio I.lltlo Onea A Short Sketch from Natural llUloiy A I'oein uu tiritodfethrr'i lterorlo. Oraniirntlirr'e Krverlt, OL.THY life u sorter luncffonic, Iuukin' at it any way "A Mucl. tin name old naltora itiixH.n', aylir lmwijy da': ?;T lllllsl hunu, j lmii.1er,in sun an1 same olil loau a JJ" fcJ leadin' down Crosi the creek an' by the nie.uierH, oirard to the lil- tie town. Boeras ,rlike ever1 tune the brook sink's is bke ibe one it sung Mgn a century ago. alien even grand-sir- e yet wus An I'd swear oryoung: mighty near it 'at the 0lJ wbiiioerwiii i.s.ar; Vh'Uri1 .WL, U lu, HriMln. grumbles in still! U l"..,onnt teller feels, "A Rl k Hula" In England. The story of the Black Hole of Calcutta is familiar to all the world, writes Waler Hesant. 1 wonder how many pcop'e have heard of a Black Hole, almcrtt as tragic, which played its somehow, 80,1 tr now. but worser when a fal!ure Tm rmh-.Ve"w hlue-llall feel ke VT" '"at might er ' eliaiieeii-li- a.1 inn,! I1'?;1 licks gut in, to tulk oppor- Ant.;o,Ml,;ln i s t come i.a tr U-e- .hy to ,!Jod the humblest toiler, though he fails, will have a show. 75ft Vta p,tn,y iJiiWaA wwi; ihe u-- uo 'Police of 00li.? i0.n.lv it5r-;r,ffi.ai- r,y a the Ba,1'ry hjmo;whar 'glories U louriU the eciii, ,wDDii ,, jiniHQJjs lii hke tarn-lo- liars fence-corne- t rs a- f - stand trios It seems at ever' stars, bein' I have ever know'll an' loved. Ail thi- - scenes when wus livin' Jest beyond my huml-gras- p they moved. In r,aVl'yard whar' my mi- fin slowly-fadi- n' - huleb 1IerlMhrill'iSJ,w tf llvl,1'8oftly catbirds' 'em slngln' 'mongst ' "ave'h.ar.l s nt hen n " nie wus l.uoiiidy .he hi tie boy wus here. younger an An.. u,ntared .n h1" nightgown, in his .rah-- cute an strong, I1!"' hreakrast. me her along; An I1 strange none talks nliout 'em .V,,.!h'.lal!,1,,,ls ""' dawn, they re both forever with me as In summers apple-liee- . 1:u-'iril- dead and gone. s, Rising up above the as a He- -. brew king of servums noddin' 'round him In his ehariot of gold 'lown'ards, fnndlln at stund In the spots hollyhocks Lucindv set 'em with her own industrious hand; "lie the Ues drone long an' meller out among the wild perfumes. Till you think some deathless la tangled in the ciover blooms, hymn hill-top- deny " amM .St-T"u,0iirU" the countryside Is lonesome worser when you feel, somehow. re a failure and deserted, as Im ruth-e- r feeiin now; As a church 'at gives liack echoes when no preacher's voice Is heard. All the world seems full er mem'rlea. whlsperln each like one afeared Guess they's times we,sll feel blue-lik- e. thfnkiii what we might er been f. we'd .had Kim fu'tlier chunees-h- ad some heftier licks In; But thar's somethin put that's consolin In considerin' also. At with Hud the humblest toller, though he falls, may have it show. -- Will T. Hals. Yes, You Rlx for One. "I should admire," sighed Aunt Cam, I should ail., lire to have another rat like Tom! He was jest the smartest cat and the best cat. and the handsomest cat I ever sot eyes on clear Maltese without a white hair on him. the best hunter you ever saw and the knowin-ecat it did beat all! "Too bad he should he plzened! Raid Mrs. Smith, sympathizing!'. Aunt Nabhy Green has a cat that's ihe perfect moral of him, as far as looks goes, and she says he's good as gold, but she sets such store by him I don't sjiose shed part with him. anyhow. Benny Prince and Nan llolluwy, who sal on Aunt Cam's doorstep playing checkers and eating peach apples, heard the conversation, nn.l both wished they could find a cat to comfort Aunt Cam. All the children loved the dear old lady who was so sweet to them, always had a plate of apples on the light stand from which you were to help yourself, and apparent;;.' never failed to have sugar plums in lir pocket. The next morning Nan tamo in s hugging a beg that squirnied aud mewed a bit, softly. Oh, Aunt Cain!" she cried, "here's two Utile Maltese kittens. I told our hired man last night about your losing Tom. and lie went home and got these for you. Ain't they beauties! And two kittens do play so case together." "You dear child!'' said Aunt Cam, Just like Tom, fondling the kittens. for all the world not a white hair Thank you. a thousand on 'em. times." And with a kiss and a handful of goodies. Nan hurried off to si liool. ,cfore five minutes, Benny came along with a gentle old Maltese cat purring In his units. "tirandma says shed Jest as soon spare you old Tab as not, fi.r she has three other cats. Kun in. Tab: I'm late to hpcIiooI." And Benny ran off. without waiting to hear Aunt Cam's Thank you. st tumr-time- ISen-n.- v. dear!" That afternoon Aunt Cam put the kittens down cellar, shut old Tab in Its dreadfri part a great deal nearei home. It was In the year 1S08 that a certain militia regiment, known as the Somerset Keneihles, then stationed at Jersey, was discharged. The men, naturally, were anxious to get home at soon as possible. The quartermaster therefor?!. among other arrangements agreed with the skipper of a small craft of 36 tons, named the John anc Elizabeth, to convey 120 of the men tc Southampton. The quartermaster appears to have made no kind of enquir as to the fitness of this small craft tc carry 'io many passangers, nor aa t. possible contingencies In case of overcrow d'ng or bad weather. He only st if usted that the boat should take oz board a supply of water sufllclent foi the viiyage, which, in those days ot sailing vessels, might possibly takt seve days. The vessel received het passengers. Two small tasks of watei were put on for their use. Thett were naturally finished in a few hours long before the vessel reached Guernsey. There they took in a little mort water, and set sail to crosB the Chan nel. But a gale arose. It was necessary, at least the skipper said so, li order to navigate the ship, that th narrow decks should be kept free. The; therefore, forced the whole of the mei 120 of them ! down below into thi tiny hold, dark, and without ventlla tlon. They then nailed down the hatch way. This dune, they paid no heed t the stifled crleB and the ftnockings o their miserable passengers but kep them down below, in that crowded hole without air, light or water the whol of that night. In the morning, whei the storm abated, they opened thi hatchway and let out all who survived Out of the 120 men who went dowi alive into the hold, there were fifty seven dead. Of the rest, some wen delirious and raving, some were dying Of this awful tragedy, this night o; suffering unspeakable, not much notice was taken; the captain was trlec for murder because one body showed bruises, but the case broke down; the quartermaster, who was, as far as wc can understand the story, wholly responsible for the calamity, escaped without so much as an Inquiry or the censure of the jury, or a court martial It was a noble time that of the long war for the common soldier, the common sailor, the common workman, oi arythinc that was common, mean, unBillV protected, or poor. Buffalo Press. Quite a Monster. A tortoise weighing 5fn pounds Is al most, large enough to satisfy any one in search of ruriosities. This is the weight of the monstei tortoise which the Hon. Walter Roths-chih:.s imported from Mauritius and The new placed in the London 'Zoo. arrival is suppustd to be about 30C years old, thou.'.:h its history can b traced for only l."0 years, during which period it was owned by branches ol the same family. The tortoise is about five feet six Inches from head to tail over the curve of its shell. It eat rabbacts and enarre vegetables and i very fond of carrots. It is not possi- ble to say whether It has attained it! ' mM v- - : t.1.0 !t.al.cj confi leiati-- ;:T one ot the at clevei: wi-ui- ms ai:t. if - Aiit-cifu- r IU-lun- Tlio Death of the Ftowera. are ilay.--i conn-- , of lilt) Till.-- Of year. uuiliiiR and u:.ki in An-- l.rown Yil:.Jn. il enluwi uml si-u- In lU-tii-- d the 1.jI-- 1 of w wouldn't the gentleman advance as as tin- - reward was sure to be and take the rn? The gentleman usually hastened to at c uninudaie the finder, only to discover later that the $1.0'o roll was simply a wad of paper with a $10 bill wrapped around It. This, says Heed, was known as pigeon droppluK and the operators as pigeon droppers." mi-ci- 1110 me.m.i-luil- Ii lli Move. The witherd dead; WO subju'ts which make a plmlogra- -' Ii unlmppy are babies and lnirses loth being equally to bundle. Thai is why Clar- puce Hailey of SL i mm f jl IIIvsm'IIL-- I A It t Jbhu's Wood and Newmarket is fam-ou- s. Mr. Hailey is young almul 30 aud premiers, luwyrrs, writers and society folk interested iu horses Ilocls to his studio. He started In soma twelve years ago in the general photographing business, but his fondues for hnrs'-- led him to branch out Inti a specialty. He says very seldom will a horse adapt Itself to the camera. Tba handsomest horses, like handsome people, often take the poorest pictures. Then, rightly enough, trainers and owners will not allow the photographer to pull about a valuable horse entered for a big race because they fear a chill for their delicate charges. Mr. Halley selects his background, focuses his camera aud has everything ready. Then the horse is walked into the scene, Ills blanket removed, and the picture Instantly taken. The brief time allowed for posing is a great drawback and it takes experience to get good results. Position, Mr. Hailey says, means everything. Some horses are hopeless. Sometimes the wind is wrong or the files are bad and then tbe artist has to I 1 ( IT U-'- "' Kerry Lilliputian Cattle. The little cows of Kerry, Ireland, may be considered as the survivors cf And to the ralihlts tread. The ruliMn and the wren are flown. Ihu great massacre of Irish rattle perAnd from the shrubs the jay. petrated by the English soldiers of And front the wood-toculls the crow. Queen Elizabeth. All that the defiant Through ull the gloomy day. Irish hud to live upon was their cauls Where are the flowers, the fair young and they held them correspondingly ftnWlTH precious. The Kerry rows probably esThat lately sprang and stood In brighter light ami softer uirs, caped the great slaughter when the A sisterhood? their fees aud drove English Alas! tiny all ure in their graves. the their to herds mountains, where The gentle race of flowers the hardy little animals survivAre lying in their lowly beds. With the fair and good of ours. ed aud are represented tc this The rain is falling whore they lie. are The day. Kerrys original But the cold November rain little black or red creatures.wlth bright Calls not, from out (lie gloomy earth. The lovely ones ugatn. eyes and crooked horns, the females having beads. a trifle too large for The anil the violet, Thi-beauty. One famous cow now rejoicperishd lung ago. And the and the orchis died. ing iu seveial prizes at Dubllo cattle Amid the summer glow; shows measures only two inches over But on the hill the a yard in height, seventy Inches In Anil tlio aster in the wood, Inches In length, And the yrliow girth and forty-tw- o brook the by In autumn beauty stood. from the tup of the shoulder to the root Till fell the frost from the dear, cold of the tall. Another famous little anheaven. imal has the record of giving In forty As falls ihe plague on men, And tlio of tlielr smile was weeks four tons, seven hundred weight gone. of butter. These diminutive creatures From upland, glade and glen. are (harming as pots and can be alAnd now, when comes the calm, mild lowed to run in small lota aud paddocks near the house, where cows of day. As still such days will come. an ordinary size would look out of To call il.a H.jiiirrcl unit the bee Tim Kerry cattle have a replace. From out their winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts Ls markable faculty of taking care of heard. themselves, and nn Instance Is rela'cd Though ull the trees are still. of a small cow, being placed In a stall And twlnkii! In the smoky light between two cows of the usual size, The waters of the rill. The south wind si arches for the flowrefusing to touch her own ample supers ply of hay till she lmd slipped her head Whose fragrance late he bore. uuder those of her neighbors and And sighs to lind them In the wood And by the stream no more. quietly appropriated their proveuder; another tiny ptt was seen to kneel, And then I think of one who In actually wriggle under a low chain and Her youthful beauty died. I calmly begin feasting on a forbidden The fair, meek blossom that grew up lawn which lay just beyond. Of the And failed by my side; In the cold, moist we laid her. Kerry breed there are now two kinds When the forest cast ihe leaf. the Kerrys proper and the Dexter And we tvept that one bo lovely Kerrys. These pretty little creatures Should have a life so lirlif: Yet not unmeet It was that one. are frequently rom pared with the black Like that young friend of ours, cattle of the Orkneys and Bhetlands, So gentle and so beautiful. which were said at one time to be so Should perish with the flowere. small that a man might pick them up MR. CLARENCE HAILEY, and carry them in a boat from one is- give up and try It again. Mr. Halleys Ilniirfl of MjiHiodon Found. work Is Instantaneous and he uses no Wisconsin correspondence of Chica- land to another. shutter, making hand exposures, lie go Dispatch: A discovery was recently some records to be proud of. Uaing has made in the County of Richmond on Forbidden 1renfinlH. two cameras he photographed twelve the farm of J. C. Dasch which is of InSome of the naval officers who achorses In fifteen minutes; again he terest to students of natural history, companied the cruiser Brooklyn to the spent three whole days trying to get and which, as a relic of a bygone age, queen s jubilee ceremonies have unex- good pictures of twelve mares and their Is a curiosity. Persons walking along pectedly fallen Into trouble, and a way fcals, the difficulty being In getting the the banks of Elm creek, a small out has not yet presented itself. One foals and their mothers together In the stream flowing through the Dasch day In a party of officers wero right pose. farm, discovered that the heavy rains being shown through various Mr. Haileys worst trouble lies In buildings had dislodged from a resting place of by the keeper of the queen's privy hunters, whirh are been photographing several thousand years the bones of purse. While making the rounds he at their best only when galloping with some prehistoric creature of gigantic ordered that some medals lie struck their long tails flying. When standing stature, which are thought to be the off, and gave one to each of his g guests still they are objects. remains of a mastodon. The following as a souvenir. All of them accepted He remedies this liy painting with a day Mr. Dasch, us, aisled by neighboring the presents and brought the pretty brush a handsome tail floating on the farmers, began digging along ihe banks little trinkets home. After returning breeze and wiping out the original one of the creek where the hones first dis- to this country one of the officers be- on the plate. covered were washed out, and after came worried by the fear that he had reaching a depth of about eight feet, transgressed the rules and regulations. mill tlie Wiwllirr. was rewarded by unearthing about He made a statement of the rase to The Interesting question whether thirty different bones of the monster the secretary of the navy, and received there Is any measurable influence exskeleton. A part of a rib, apparently a reply that such a medal, even If pre- erted upon the earth's atmosphere, and of the sented as a representing about souvenir, could not be acoriginal length, measured over three cepted without a special act of con- particularly upon what wc call the lf weather, by the black spots on the and feet, anil the circumfergress. The other officers of the Brook- sun, is ence of the bone of the front leg at again under discussion. Sunlyn who accepted these medals are. increase and decrease In size and the knee joint, as accurately measured spots however, holding on to their girts and numls'r periodically, the average time inches. Othby Dasch, wras thirty-nin- e nothing about them. New York from one maximum of spots to another er bones were proportionately larRe. saying World. being about eleven years. At present The damp blue clay in whirh the skeletin spots arc Incoming less numerous, ton was embedded had assisted In keepTwo I)mJ Wli air. and their minimum period Is npi reaching it in an almo-- t perfect state of Consideiabic evwas excitement created ing. At a reel lit meeting of tlie Royal preservation, ard It gave hut little idence of having remained buried in awhile ago by tlie report that a north- Meteorological socieiy Mr. A. B. gave re.isoim for believing that, the earth since the time when mam- ern steamship had righted the wreck minimum draws near, as tbe in of man were predomi- of Audreu's balloon mals inst'-aHunting there is a tendency toward greater heat nant. Several Hint arrow heads! were The story was quite extensively cir in the summer and greaier cobl In the also picked up near wluue the remains winter than is the case near the run-spwpre found. Scr.rc-h- is are now enmaximum. The part of the world deavoring to procure those parts of the skeleton not yet found and it will specially considered by Mr. .Miullowall was western Europe, but If Europe Is probably occupy a prominent pine in America must be Madaffected by f. the State Historical at affected by them sio. ison. Hi- - a They rustle to the eddying gust. p s wlnd-inw- er y brlpr-ros- o gthl-n-rod- , siin-llow- , meek-lookln- fun-Kw- three-fourt- U hs one-ha- . Mac-Iiown- . i Ilgi-i- Iri-i-jn-r- in I.n r. " i'1 lt-e- hhm-mo- iv.i-fid-r- opi-ra- .! T . . i.migi'st iii riiit;!)- oiiii-i-Rcui.cn C. 1;. .ah uf ( ampin 11 county, Georgia, is the i humpimi uug dis- till e '.v'oi- - holder of ihe n liol ' i:i 1 ' i: i i cil Eia-s- . riiav he w.ia eulated. The sliie.'s officers saw a huge 1I has l.i round body flouting aimlessly and It Ll years oi l. ai,d as be is now !Ti, 1j;h a huikcd like mulling In the world so record almost tiirn 'lusm is uf a as a pah!;; obit !. much a- - an airship nunc to grief. :o he is called by Fiiele lb Ili.:.c ihe ii:. of the munly, residr uml ilia all was What really seen, however, wais position of clerk of the first court hold v, l;;:! a ii'vul. m TieAficr iwro in that part of Gi rgi.i. fbow.- - tln-- o j viriped an in-- f the lep.i.d.t: ure years balloons wiihout fordsig vl.!h are in Fa nip. mil coiiiiiy, aud court rfor si cn in the northern secs. Every whaler who sin nils bis explosive harpoon Mr. lienvi rs decided i!rt. he would like k court. His umldMon into he iK.dy of a Finnish whale does to be rlei cf that a ml wlin. a few years was gtanfnd. r. t ea;u lire h' prize, and M.i whale tile emirt of ordinary was estabto the Inler. neves, ('res. hlcat.-- - arid lie was cleric:! the ri rk (if that lished. surir.ee. .ring hi.e a striped, ha!f-- j court, lie ha- held t!it (.flirt almost submerged balloon. continuously ver siuuo. i i fli'-- tea-tur- . m-- ilm-iin- d Iui.-iik-s- s :rft s. nm-s;wt- Vlv "pi-en- mieee'-sfill- ot M, Mu.-iu- m j ll ot sun-sp- y . From lbs Kansua City Journal: In the Lawtrial of a case in a pniice court rence tlie oilier day tie. la wyci r were puzzled to discover in an old ciiy orn dinance the words I'rnppor," full size. This Is by no nsenns th which wcie evidently used to denomilseaviis; of these creatures known. Mr nate a certain ciass of criminal. No Rothschild imported one So years ol! one, however, knew .ti;y:hi: g aluut which weighed $70 pounds and was the class or their mHlfIs, nnl a disstill growing when It died. Thest cussion was start d w h cii la. i.d fur and Iimnul.t out ai sorts gie.it tortoises were at one time verj seveial days numerous around the Aldabian group of explanations. Finally F. W, but the number is now greatly re- solved the riddle. He said that in years neo. when l;e w.is in duced. n wa.t a New York city, il: In one circies. About police four of modern limes The finest rinl was y: m to the Empress Josephine. Ii that time a new c inlM'-nea wli'.ih of rtarted . rrfiiilrti brae wi-call 'd "The Burning of Troy. Its to it. fete is unknown, ns it disappeared et They would pick up a i: .: on the the allies entered Paris. wli-'r- v.h-.- go ahead and drop wiiai apjMv.a- - to bs a big roll of bills, Tl.-second confederate, keeping puce CLARENCE HAILEY HAS TAKEN with the victim, so as to arrive at the TO EQUINE PHOTOGRAPHY. spot a little la advance ot him, would p!ck up the roll. Turning then to the Itonei of Mint oilim Kntinit Monster Itlh vii-tihe would explain that he had lh gparlully Sulinl 1IU Fuller unit anil Krimt of Thta IlraaliiK to hurry out of town; that the roll conHo llui Mitilr a ttiiniKliiliig IJaralniaii Tba Death of tained at lea-- t f 1.000; that the loss Almul Hid liilrl-n'ii-of (inttiug (inud would surely be advertised and a reIiuscri. i uf llluiiilfil Ilumr. ward of at least $100 he offered; ! s?'-- . "rajr," - M cain-panji- ris - e i |