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Show action. It Is composed of a ground BOYS AND GIRLS. maaa of clay and fossilised orgaaio matter, with a little rock salt and utscattered throughout In grains and SOME GOOD 8TORIES FOR OUR ter QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS small JUNIOR READERS. patches. These salts absorb tha AND EVENTS. aerial moisture as It Increases In amount, and dissolve In It. forming Tha Little One la All Bight," story Atmoapharle Changes Foretold by black surface films, while they regain by Mary A. Henson Uow Dr. MUbara Mtaae Fiesta Grow Moat at Klght their white color as the drier atmosBtadlad Aa Acted Parable Why She Time A Magnetic lalaad Meoalag phere evaporates the moisture from net tha DolL cast-oa The shell of them. of the Ghoat Uaira species of crab In Chill answers the same purpose, being extremely sensitive to atA Cfalld'a With. At Twilight. kikb soma bright mounting Hama our Ufa mospheric changes. It remains quite Be my fairy, mother. Give me a wish a day; white In fair, dry weather, while apsprings and sparkles, os well In aunahlne flow aoara defiance to the sun. proaching rain la indicated by the ap- Something, Aa when tha play. Now gluoma and darklaa; which of red small spots, pearance six as the In and both And If number were I a grow d fairy. Her from the glow With but one wlah to spare. moisture of the air increases. Sweet Influence round It abeddftig What ahould I give thee, darling. aullen brand Here from a To quiet thine earneet prayer T" Dull alutdow spreading. A Royal Love Letter. I'd Ilka a little brook, mother. And gathered In Ita blither blaaa Sir Benjamin Stone, M. P., was alAll for my very own. What gay frlenda haply eluater. lowed last year to photograph In the To laugh all day among the tree a, Wanned deeply with tha roijr ray Vatican a number of MSS. relating to And ahlna on tha money atone. And Ughtaoma luatre! Great Britain and going back hundred! Full aoon tha cheerful gueata ara gone of years Some of them have nevei To run right under the window. And ring me taut aaleep. Tn alow departing number. Close curtained from the murmuring been In print One, we are told, which With soft steps, and a tender sound excited deep Interest, was a latter of; Over tha grans to creep. to hla alumber. Henry VIII. to hla dear Anne Boleyn." j Make It run down tha hill, mother. It was quite in the style of a lover With a leap like a tinkling bell. And down on tha deaerted hearth. sighing like a furnace. The anxious Bo fast I never can catch tha leaf In dying, fitful flaahea, That Into ita fountain felL monarch writes: The lonely fire haa drooped and aunk And fallen In aaliea; "The approach of the time, which 1 aa wild aa a frightened bird, have so long expected, rejoices ms so "Mlfiir Aa crasy aa a bee. Tet part of that Immortal flame much that it seems almost already And a nolaa Ilka the baby'a funny laugh; Which, far tn daeps of even, That's tha brook for mi!" Informs the white and aacred atara come. However, the entire accomplishAnd dazalea heavanl ment cannot be until two person! The Little One la All Bight." meet which Is more desired by me Queer Colneldaaeas. For In (Mary A. Benson.) else world. than the There la a little world in which wo what anything Well her Just aa we did the can earth bury be greater upon live and the people most certain of thii than toJoyhave the company of her whe other two, were the words we heard are thoae who have experienced Is on nearing a little cabin-boon the my dearest friend, knowing strange coincidences which seem alshe does the same on her edge of the sand bar that the low that most Impossible. The New York Telpart? the thinking on which gives me water had left in front of the village. egraph relates some cases which are pleasure. You may Judge what effect Bowing our heads, from necessity as authentic. Harry Bradshaw, executive the presence of that person must have welf as reverence, we entered the narlibrarian of the Cambridge university on me whose door, near which was absence haa made a row. library, had a strange adventure In the greater wound in my heart than either a small, rude coffin, resting on two Parle library. A book had been lost d or writing can express, and broken chain. A dark, tor nearly a century, and Mr. Bradshaw words which nothing can cure but her re- woman who was frying bacon on a went over to see If he could discover turn." little Btove In the center of the room, Search was fruitless, though there looked up scowllngly at our entrance, At of this scroll Is the fignrf was a strong presumption as to the of the foot Inserted nothing An old man, whose amid the words, a heart. part of the library where It woold be H. cares for no other. Rex." long gray hair and beard framed a He stood one day In one of found. face more defiant than sorrowful, arose the recesses of the library, describing from the bed In the corner, kicked an Grow Moat at Xlbt Ite probable appearance to the libraold, black. Jug to one side, and conIt Is a curious fact that night la th fronted ua rian, about the height thickness and similar binding to this," aald he, tak- time which nature utilizes for growth. What do you want here, anyhow? Plants grow much more In the night said he. The little un'll get ing a book out of the shelves. along all in the daytime, as can he proved than It was the missing book. When the (wo others died, w right. The stories of strange coincidences any time by measurement. didnt have no church folks around, Measure a vine at night, then meas- nor In the matter of the recovery of lost preacher, nor funeral business. We property are legion. Two years ago a ure It again In the morning and thi Just dug a hole an put em In It, an lady staying at Long Branch lost a next night, and It will he found that they didn't have no $60 coffins, neither. gold ring while bathing. A reward waa the night growth is two or three time Well do the same with this un, an offered and all the boys of the place that accomplished during the day. we dont want none o you rich folks During the day the plant Is very around ua You wouldnt care If we raked the whole shore up in search of It But It was never found. The busy gathering nourishment from va- was starvin; you call us river rats; next year the lady waa at Long Branch rious sources, and during the night thlt you make fun of us If we go near your again, and while reading on the shore, raw material Is assimilated Into the fine churches, an we dont want nothnever looking for the ring or thinking plant life. in of you, nohow. The old man The same fact la true of the animal stopped, and she turned it up accidentally both hands cf running creation. Children grow more rapidly with her parasol. through his shaggy hair, seemed to A woman out bicycling lost a Jeweled during the night listen to the doleful plashing of the In the day time, while the child li water on the keel of his floating house. sc&rfpln, which she much valued. She awake and active, the system is kepi Very gently we assured him that our did not miss It till the end of her Jourconseney, and as she had ridden 20 miles busy disposing of the wastes sympathy was with all the sorrowing; on this but quent activity; during sleej that our little village was famed for the prospect of finding It seemed smalL She, however, gave notice of her loss the system Is free to extend Its opera- Its kindness to strangers, its care for to the police. On her return Journey, tions beyond the mere replacing ol the sick and the suffering, its substanparticles, hence the rapid tial help to all who were In need. when about a mile from home, she worn-ogrowth. Dont blleve nothin of the sort," punctured the tire of her machine, and on dismounting to discover the cause retorted he, walking backward and Ialand la MiMt found the pin sticking In the tire. In the Baltic the Danish island Born- forward with a heavy tread that rockholm, which Is situated about twenty-fou- r ed the boat to and fro. "We was tied Foar Femoae Statues. miles, east by south, from thi up at Portage for six weeks, with the The most famous statues in history nearest point of Sweden, may be re- children sick with the measles, and us the whole arc the Colossus of Rhodes, the Sphinx garded as a huge magnet Although not a woman came Is time. endurin all Folks df alike, mostBtatue vocal of Memnon li at this island the the and power magnetic Thebes, and of these the last is the not so great that it can draw the nalli ly, an wed rather theyd stay away most remarkable, in consequence of Its out of ships, as was told of the legend- from ua The little un Is all right, of you: an as for me, I property of emitting sounds when its ary magnetic hills, the magnetism ol without any In bliere dont Ive nothin', nohow. on tee touched were the Island Bornholm rocks of of the the by rays lips of lived on this year so upards to trousun can cause thirty does and it a that seemed deal of good greet rising the coming day. It was originally a ble to ships in quite another way, foi old Mississippi river, have been over 700 miles of It, up an down, an never portrait model of King Amenophis HI., the island exerts such an influence on and was one of a pair of statues be- the magnetic needle that It causes a bothered nobody. I s'pose If youre tween sixty and seventy feet high, vessel to turn perceptible aside from boun an determined to haul the little carved out of single blocks of sand- Its course. The effect of the Island un away, an' put it In the ground, you can do it, though stone and transported from the quar- magnetism U felt at a distance of about funeral-likas well, cordin to my he Just twould ries to Thebes, whereas the Sphinx nine and a half miles. On the island we If was to roll It up an' Hebthinking, was carved from the living rock In the of Canna (one of the Argyllshire the Into river. Your slngin It drop now It northmiles stands. about where situate three rides), place Of statues not so well known the west of Rum, there Is a hill which hai an prayin can't hurt It, nohow, no most remarkable Is that of Buddha at magnetic power sufficiently strong tc moren they can do it any good; cause Kara, near Kioto, In Japan, which was affect the compasses of vessels passlni you see, dont you, the little uns all erected A. D. 1100. It Is made of near It. The Island is a mile In breadth right The cloudless sunshine of the Easter feet six by four and a half miles In length. bronze, and is crept over the bluffs, touchmorning more than twenty-eigInches high and waves with crystal, and river the ing feet broad across the shoulders. BI aan In of tha Ghoat Hum the brown sand bar a plain of On its head are 966 curls, and the ImIn one of the recently published vol- making burnished Afar off, from a of gold. age Is surrounded by a glory or halo umes of the Smithsonian Institution, feet in diameter, on Mr. James Mooney explains that thi cathedral tower, Easter chimes were seventy-eigwhich sixteen images eight feet long underlying principle of tha Sioux Joyously vibrating on the sweet spring are cast. Two smaller Images, each ghost dance Is the doctrine that at air. Birds were singing merrily from twenty-liv- e feet high, stand In front of some time the whole Indian race, liv- the budding branches on the river one. The total weight of ing or dead, will be reunited in Ilfs banks, and all the visible world seemthe larger metal In the main figure la about 450 upon this earth, untroubled by death, ed Joining in the Easter chorus of the tons, of which 500 pounds consist of hunger or disease. The object of thi Resurrection and the Ufa Two or were on the sand bar gold. dancers is to fall into a kind of trance three wagons cabin-boa- t, and with gentle near the In which they can see and conversi coffin waa covered with the hande tiny Alnioepberle Changes Foretold by a Stone with their dead relatives. The mediIn Finland, a species of stone, known cine man plays the part of a mesmer- flowers and carried from Its water-tosse- d home to our silent village on as "semakulr, actually foretells the ist. keeping the sun full In the face ol A dozen or more "church hill. the probable changes In the weather. In the dancers, making passes before theli stood by the parents, as a hymn folks dry, fine weather the stone Is of a dark eyes, and twirling sticks and feathen was a prayer was offered and sung, mottled color become with white spots, until they entranced. Suet gray was covered, then the wee the grave but before approaching showers of warlike outbreaks as that of 1890 la funeral procession wound thick in is is It blackens all over most the United States are due to the at quaint, hills Into the valley the and around of course, at the spaces tempts of ambitious chiefs or medicineconspicuously, In while the air of the calm soft which were previously white aud men to anticipate the Indian millen- again, the defiant Easter morning fathers gradually returns again to its former nium through the annihilation of thi words echoed more than pleasantly as weather the state Its white man. Improves. "The little un Is all right. before, are warnings prophetic regarded by now Dr. Mllburn StarflmL Coco is Spanish for bogle, and It li many as having a superstitious origin, but a recent analysla of the stone ex- said the coeoanut waa thus named foi Dr. Mllburn, the blind chaplain of plains the cause and shows that there Its resemblance dto a distorted hnmax congress, is a wonderful example of Is nothing whatever mysterious in its face. nluck under terrible difficulties.. At 5 FOR IN THE ODD CORNER fi Now-kindle- d, rain-dro- ps ruby-hearte- half-quench- - -- like-wis- at e low-fram- ed stern-vlsage- it but-sai- . it ut gh e, fifty-thr- ee ht ht years of age the sight of one eye went out; with the other he could still see partially. How. he managed to spell his way through school and college Is told by the Union Gospel News. When he made up his mind to enter the ministry, he was clerk In an Illinois store, with small means, and small opportunities. Time was, he says, when, after a fashion, I could read, but never with that flashing glance which Instantly transfers a word, a line, a sentence, from a page to the mind. It was a perpetuation of the child's process, a letter at a time, always spelling, never Thus, for more than reading, truly. twenty years, with the shade upon the brow, the hand upon the cheek, the Anger beneath the eye to make an artificial pnpll, and with the beaded sweat joining with the hot tears that trickled from the weak and painful organ, was my reading done. Then what little sight he had steadily faded, until at last he was as he has now been for more than half a century totally blind, yet a man of great ability and a power In the church. Cleveland's Fair Flower, During Mr. Clevelands tour of the south shortly after his marriage, Mrs. Cleveland and he were driving one day through the streets of one of the larger towns, escorted by two of its citizens. Some one threw a bunch of violets to Mrs. Cleveland, and Mr. Cleveland bent forward to catch It, remarking as he presented it: 1 wonder why no one gives me flowers? One of the gentlemen present gallantly replied: We think you have won the fairest flower In the land! Ah, yes, returned the president, but, you see, I can't keep her In water. It Is not necessary, since you keep her In such excellent spirits, was the reply. Here Mrs. Cleveland Interposed, saying: I am afraid you are guilty of flattery, whereupon came the reply: No, madam; flattery Is fulsome compliment, and In this Instance no compliment could be either too frank or too fulsome! The charm of this response Ilea In the last and fourth from the last words, Mrs. Clevelands maiden name being Frances Folsom. Ladies Home Journal. Aa Acted Farabis, When the late Dr. Alexander Proud-f- lt was pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Springfield, Ohio, he told this amusing story at a social gathering of the teachers of his Sunday school: A good old Scotch elder, who waa deeply concerned because his pastor persistently refused to allow children to be admitted to church fellowship. Invited him to his house. After tea, the elder took the pastor out to see his large flock of sheep put into the fold. Taking his stand at the entrance to the sheepfold, the elder allowed the sheep to enter, but as the little lambs came up, he roughly pushed them back with a heavy stick. The pastor became very Indignant, and exclaimed, What are you doing to the lambs? They need the shelter far more than the sheep! Just what you are doing to the children at the church,' was the prompt reply. The object lesson did its work. Never again did the pastor attempt to shut out from the fold of the church one of Christs little ones. Why she Got the DolL A queer old man once made TO SAVE YOUR LIFE. SHOULD YOU BE CAUOHT IN A BURNING HOTEL. Quettloa Which Maay Maa Haa Asked Hlmsolf Aaawarad Simply Knuugh Karra Will Sava Yea, Terror Mease Death. The burning of the Windsor Hotel has set people all over the country to thinking of what they would do In a similar case. In consequence of which the fire chiefs of the various largo cities have been deluged with letters of nqulry for rules for escape, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The average person seems to think, says a local veteran, that you can lay general rules for contingencies which are not once In a century of like circumstances. The fact of the matter is that no one can predirect escape from such a 'fire as that of the Windsor. The only thing which can possibly save any one Is Just what most people under those condition have not steady nerve. Every fireman who goes Into such a place Is In as much danger aa the guests, with the possible difference that his respirator protects him from poisonous fumes. But, as for knowing which way to turn, he knows even less than the transient roomer. He relies on his native good sense, which discipline has preconserved for him. In other words, be keeps his head about him. When a fire alarm Is given In an hotel, the first Impulse of the guests, especially If it be at night. Is to rush out Into the hall. Halla being the best of flues they are always filled with smoke, if not with flame, long beThe fore the room Is Impregnated. guests, who did not notice in calmer moments which way to turn to the stair, invariably run In that direction which seems to be most free from fire. This Is, of course, away from the stair. Finding the way blind, or an unsown passage stretching away before him, he returns straightway, that Is If he can, to his room, although he does not know exactly why. He has a dim Idea that It Is to consider. But under such circumstances consideration Is Impossible. So he rushes out again, only to find, in all probability, that the flames have now reached the door of his room. If there be not a fire escape leading from his window he Is lost He had let his golden opportunity slip by. No fireman ever stops to think. If bis InBtinct cannot guide him aright, he Is unworthy of the place. Discussion of the various kinds of fire escapes Is now engaging the attention of the New York hotel keepers. In keep lng with the requirements of the law there are rope fire escapes In all hotels where there are no balcony and Iron ladder fire escapes, bat every large fire demonstrates that the rope Is not a trustworthy means of escape. In most Instances these ropes are just as they come from the original coll, and to descend by means of one of them, hand over hand, from a high point, requires considerable acrobatic skill and not a little endurance, both of which count for nothing among people. In a few hotels the ropes are knotted at Intervals of about two feet, which makes the task of descending a little less hazardous. Some houses are supplied with ladders made by connecting two ropes with wooden rungs, but as these ladders when swung from a window hang flat agalnBt the wall they offer a poor foothold, and another ladder similar to this, but with offsets which, keep it away from the wall, has found seme sale. But the rope ladders as well as the smooth or the knotted ropes are not practicable for hysterical women, children, invalids or Injured persons, because to be of service the people who make use of them must possess qualities which should be looked for only In calm and healthy adults. panic-strick- en a tea party for all the little girls In our town; and, when they were all gathered In his front yard. In white dresses and carefully tied sashes, he offered a doll for the most popular little girl la the crowd. But half the children did not know what "most popular meant So he told d them It was the little girl. All the children voted, and Mary Blaln Faanata a Soberer. got the doll. Mary was not the pretn A prowler, who thinks tiest nor the cleverest of the children, he can stand as many drinks as most but she got the dolL Now," said the queer old an Mi other men In the course of an evenwill give another doll to the one that ing, Invariably patronizes a peanut first tells me why you all like Mary stand before he Jumps on a car for home, rides on the back platform unthe best I have til he has finished eating. answered at first Hut Nobody presfrom he found long said, experience, ently Fanny Wilson said, It's because the hotter the that peanuts, better, Mary always finds out what the rest of alus want to play, and then says, Let's have a strong faculty for absorbing from It and cohol destroypreventing play that! nerves. If a man takes six or The old gentleman said that was ing the seven drinks of whisky and then eats the best reason he had ever heard. a pint or so of peanuts, he will find the By and By. exhilarating effects of the liquor alAn Irishman went into a public-hous- e most entirely gone. It Is a better In Sligo and called for a glass of remedy than raw onions, and not nearwhisky and water. Having tasted It ly so obnoxious to people you may he exclaimed: have to talk to on the way home. Which did you put In first, the whisky or the water? Lon Inn'a Load. The whisky, of course," the publiThe largest city In the world Is Loncan replied. don, which has a population equaling "Ah, well! says Pat, maybe 0111 the combined population of Paris, Bercome to It Its lin, St, Petersburg and Rome. in a row, would reach streets, placed Unanspocted VUlalny. around the world, leaving a hit over do yon live? First Lawye-Whenough to reach from London to long Second Lawyer I object to the quesSan Francisco. as and irrelevant tion Immaterial. Ustener Mardful hlvens! Olll kill Heavy Rea losses. Mulroon, for It's only th other .lay he Marine underwriters paid $12,000, 000-Iasked me thot qulston. New York losses on sea last jear Journal. best-like- well-know- ere |