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Show JUNE TIIE SUNDAY MORNING KXVMINEI?, 4, Vto it ig n- pi rale .if : lie North." i The reared wildly, tjiefa-- c wire while, h.it lie wae I general' I le horseman. Veld the plunging' great 'beast in her brothand E!!sc er reached the curb In s.itciy. The iinliiiikeregcitedly. j tie.-.Ti general' galloping down1 a dire-- -' .the Unci, hut iio liad whleje-reIrion to one of hia aide, who leaped from' :M horse and f puke l Ellse with great. .politi-nre- . "The general want you to. ride wnh no." he r.iid kindiy. and he itidil me to toll yon iMirtlciilarly that you miglit wave your flag all tne way." He helped Ellse anil her brother Into' one of the big 0an carriage. They had. only a little way to go; only to the armory, he explained to Ellse. The troop worn to disband there. j Elide and John and Jamea ghrank Into, the corner of the carriage, too txelted to talk. Preaently they drew up before al alrongly built structure. The young aid appeared at the carriage door and w!ih him wn the general. j "Did you lou-the Northern soldiers when you were in our war?" aake.1 KI:e reproachfully. "My dear tittle girl." (aid I1 the aun out of the heavens I the general, with a twinkle in hia eye, I oon 4 th ,art iiri! aI- - gone, waa In our war1 on the Unton aide." He er. placed a band on each of her liroihera.Her wing are of burter.fy "And here." wild be. "we have' Of ertmaon and purple an.l gold, two more Union aulJIrra of the future. 'Aurora will always bo level;.-Thpant I over long ago; now North and! Bccauae she can never grow old. South are tha Union. Don't forget ihjt.-Ehonce fell In love with Tlthom., little Ell." Who was hut a mortal, like yo.i. And Just then the young men who had "'One wlh you may have," snil Aurora, JJut I promieu tiut one shall com been hia alda In the proceaaion came up. true." The general drew them ground him. u sold three he. "let give Ueutleinon," Tithonus, who lotefl her unwisely. cheers fur g brave little Confederate." looked foolish and said with a ugh: "I want to be with you forever, They were given with a will. "Three cheers for the general." sug- Sj I wish tUut I never muy die." gested John, with g glanre at his slater. These, too. were given gayly. It was then that Eltae capitulated. Kite waa not to be outdone In magnanimity. "Three cheera for the Yanks, sold Ellse. And a little later when they left the armory Elisa and John and James had tiny American flag in their hats. I'ral-ie- gr.-.ri- d j J coiori'-ahould- e and John and James Homer hsJ Their grandfather CURB bom in Pari. of hia anna bad fought on the r. Whan Southern alda In the civil the war waa over and the Southern rauae Btatra United lost the Horners bad left the and gone to hve abroad, there to aubalet on tha scanty remains of their fortune and taouraa the blttarnaaa of their disappointment. Kllea'a grandfather had never been "reronairurlrd." That ineana lie had never to the United taken the oath of gialag government, which waa required after the war from all who had fought against tha Union. Neither had lier a whole family had ivaented tha of the war bltrorly. Kline rememIn bered her grandfather's Httla room of which were lined with rarl the halla on which the great mepe of the hatilefli-ldairugglea of tha clvlt war had Uken place. Although elm waa only lira when her grandfather died, sha recalled quite plainly the atern old gentleman who waa continually poring over them. Bmldra tlia maps there were tho war time atorica. Kllao and John and Jamea had heard them from their very little days. They had hern wrapped In an atmosphere of memories. Their amall aparl-meon tha outeklrta of Parle waa hung with picture of tlie old home In the United Blatea the South with portrait a of their old nelghbnra and friend, with all aorta of memento. In the little dining room hung tha old firearm which had home a part In tha war. But moat intereattng of all waa the allken flag, tha flag or the Confederacy, draped over their nimmt'a dreerlng table and the oM uni forma, ragged and battle atalned, which once In a very great while John and Jamea were permitted to lake out of their wrapplnga and camphor and to wear for an afternoon of dignified maaqueradlng. Grandfather would perhapa not have but Ellac'g mamma waa a Trench woman. Bhe sympathised wlth tha loat cauae, but not bitterly. a The children were engaged in till one day when an elderly gentlrniaii appeared at the houae. Ha wee their Uncle Theodore, he told them, and KUae remembered that he waa the one who had been "reconstructed." He had never seen uulfnrma and t lie flag which Kliqa. waved Kllse and John and Jamea had never seen their father, ao exelted aa he wa on hia their mamma, who had been married Iciai'llm diminutive Confederate fun-The old clothe, eh?" lie had eald, when he auw hia brother. Tim two their father many year after he had left been had very quiet whilef pjoriy men ant talking far into the night. Me own country. ilngly. and he a and their amused Illlleihe mottier and father to both for waited seemed He The next morning a In n El lac waa starting troubled to see Jack's and James' dreaajreiurn from their promenade for her convent aeltool her new unde, Theodore, and her papa accompanied her. "How would you like to go over your own country, my dear?" wild her uncle ' MAKE s twp-Th- e e AURORA AND THE CRICKET. (Copyright by Hermlne Bell wed.) XCE Mercury took Teddy up to the palace of the god at night. As they 'drifted along on the edge of a puffy, white cloud, Ted looking far, far up, aaw that tile dim. black aky waa powdered The cool night wind 'ewnpt jwit.li stars. pleasantly In their faces, bringing with It a delicious fragrance. It hinted of roses and lilies and violets nil in one, and Teldy took deep, long breaths of it. Mercury set Teddy a little more fl'nily on his shouldiT. "The night Is getting It must bn almost time o'd." he said. for Aurora. That fragrance usually means that her chariot of flowers is near. All, A LOVELY GODIKSI. there she ponies now! Look, Teddy!" Alas for Tithonus! alack and And Teddy saw In a enrrluge all covered He that he'd have to grow old. with blossoms of delleale blues and pinks Whenforgot he was a hundred lie shrivelled and lavender and while a lovely godde And shivered aul shook tilth tha cold. who looked like some flower herself. wish of Tithouii wa granted. ' "Bhe' she's lovely!" whispered Ted. The But he had lost all Ids hair "She makes nm think of I don't know He waswhen old and unhappy ntul ugly. what exactly, but" Mr. "Haven't yon ever been up very early While Aurora stayed youthful snd In the morning when the dawn come?" He shrivelled and alirlvl!iil and rltritHM Ineliea waa two he Until long. "Ye, once. Why?" "Because that' what Aurora make you Aurora then made him a crick!, this song. him 1 heard And Hawn.'' In the inside pocket of the Ulster whldhl What the spectators saw was a little ihlnk of. Bhe's the Goddeaa of "Ho it Is!" cried Ted. delightedly. "And When Mercury hud flnlhd Ted rkd:-W- as site knew elie would wear on the voyage. figure waving an unknown flag, flying in Tithonus the same kind uf t rrirkrt site' so beautiful, I'd 11 ko to look at her All th voyage she kept It carefully. Only fl0 WY face of the great general slid forever and ever." that we have at home?" once did eh bring It nut. That was when! "bricking excited hnaaalia for the Kt "Don't wish that." said Mercury, irravi "Juat the sann." an sored Mercury. Pwaued by (wo sturdy boys, !y. "Walt till Aurora's passed and I'll tell Look a kindly young lady gathered the children there. Ted. Bee th tnil Aurora has saw the marshal of the procession passengers around iicr one morning and! you about somebody who wished ho might lert behind lur. and horse him." rearing forever and whet happened to And Ted saw u brostl, dun bund ot light' began to tell them s patriotic story. Thr,ah.?lu.nln.B.' children ha had known on live of the night. Ac soon as the carriage of blunaonia had aoroa thn hlarkne had a tnnr.il which waa that all good lyond that thn shipboard In great danger of being run wept by Mercury began: American children should love the flag. strenk of dawn from her rhr-In- t, a "That's down exelted animal. by the Tlieodore. went on Mercury. "I didn't know A ranEKT snxu. Do you know tills flag, Miss Withers?" What Kllse aaw waa a great oncoming Kllse looked puxiled. Her papa came to the morning was so near. I'll hair t" askril Elise. wavn of hnrsea and men, and in the very This Is a tale of Aurora. hi r assistance. of dawn. ' you home at once." Our ' "No, I don't," said Mis Withers, look- front of It all her general her own gen- - The beautiful goddess "To the United Buttes," he explained. SIDE "You know," eatd tier uncle, "You urn ing at it curiously. cowurc an American girl, after all." "It la the flag of my country," said Kllse. Elsie looked at her papa lUfain. proudly. There was a white haired old gentleman "1 know that father la an American, they say so at thn convent, nlnt standing near the group of children. He gently in his hand and smiled, they .always Introduce mo ua an American took the flagElise. "Tlu Uonfcdcrale dug. gravely at inns, but mamma Is French. I did not 'he explahieit to Mis Withers. He shook quite kn w about myself, she explained, Kllse warinHr. ,Uunrnd,,1 he sitli "Besides," site added slowly, "I do not ir'.U'l earnestly. "I'm glad to meet you. think 1 should care to live there now, and iMld, had brave blood In yon. I'll warrant. 1 know John nd Jamea wouldn't. They You men The who loved that flag were good hate the North ao. of John and "We'll make soldier . said her uncle, laughing, undj. Jinn," we'll make a real 'American miss' of you." j 1 wa U bn old genth man, proud- sol-' "Will you make them Northern Idlers?" sski-Kliao anxlotialy. r. don t you know," whispered on IV' 11 make them snldlrn.1 "No, Indeed. t'ie American chlldrrn, that a the of the Union." said her Undo Theodore. "Union soldiers liava been good fight rr,JIVL7 ,JlHt when the General walked up always, brave men, and they fought for .a!land down thn disk or ast In his steamer good cauae. I'M! chair John nnd James were vry But Kllse had her own Ideas about It. 'often with and him. Bumetlmes he told them to nt alii ... . nM wuln tiHrnlj m . ivent until lee.ims were over. Bhe wa. ?" ai homf' wrr of ",vl h"' h',r to tell John and Janie what had no anxious grandchildren and all his children said. Theodore had jl'iielu up. Kllse and James and Hut when she home that after- were grown constituted themselves a youthful noon she found Iter brothers had already John been told of the tamtemplated visit to the bodyguard. Hu would have had the children mid their United Blates. come to his house In New York "We are to go to a military sdiisil there. parents whan they landed, but they were going I like llt.it pari." nald John. to tin bis town on the Itudanu. INSIPE suld James, "and I like the him directly which John and where the military 5M0WIN& NOW trip, hut I don't think I can stand being Janie were to attend was situated. Mr. bossed bv a lot of 'Y. inks'." and Mrs. llorner and Unde Tlieidore after 5IK b Klls ran through the apartment. Fanny, placing the lmys In the school left KllsrWITH lit. mulatto mold, was packing wife fm f n,e sniierintend-nf- s garniL'ti:(n tDOt WHIN lu tit- - boyW bedroom. Helen, thet rh(rK busily Imiiortuiil V(vk an,i vrnt nwy .UNLOCKED Fretti-linalil. was taking d.utn tho pic-- : turn In (he drawing room. In the diiilng pnstnes sh nf ,h4r prrJu,,,'vf,,n' in irjntti and stor.ng tt away In a great clu-a-t ,,)py srarcely mltfsed tlielr parenis for (he of heavy wo.ul. "Oh, mamma, gaaiwd Kllse, "you aren't piivtuiy cimfidi-i- l in Klise In the corner of really going to send us to the United tho parade ground one morning that l'aris iBtatcsT" ws nil rlghit for girl, perhaps, but hf Her mamma laughed heartily. "We're all 'even." said piVM them America, imj. ltllle she said ilaugiitev." gayly. going, John, nugnaiilniously, "even the North." "Is it not well that your papa alunth!' Among tlie Interesting doings at (lie ip.HI" ' ' return to ag-itnot iglioiild he so longed (o bniihir pmii'iiM liitn lllP chUimn wrr to hnvf Wife wwiidonul inti hir mothers tho nonxili! p1axp to ' c. COm- -t IW '?oro' had ilecurtit"'! u wvro alrol'ly Wnatlon lock. You Invite all to open; wood o flat st.lx is to be made on each. so'laken down for packing, but tlie Coiifrd- , 'Vrourec i e would not h ive beer. 'here Is no key Just turn th knobs-tliaa to re when the knob over certain! wli. still V tunic! the mirror, hung flag said " l' ' ,'II -right, but no one but you can open lt.letter or imnilicr this flat stile will cor-had been repl.icvl after the lost nuis- - J?.. k to Ji ltn i, ti a narjil Any la.y with a little skill can make a respond nr lie even with ilie edge of the.qnrr.ide. Her grandfather hail often held ' Nw.licrn combi nallon lork that wiU defy th effort cover, and th door may c t It when pin whr tiny ffiri. opriird. T.ikci hiT lip c. ot tlie most prying. Then with his knowl-inn- t nf what number produces thin result "The flag of a single star." he wuuid "H,n forgotten ti.e lost edge of (lie combination he can tmloek his fln, after attaching tin1 circular pices-say"Every mini uf your family save Ierhaps John and JamesIn lietrsy.il a but or money box when all other will thin dircc the door and give the knot a twist thro did N neaih It." Ellse ellmbi'il up rather lukewarm sentiment locked out. iand on the dressing table and look It Perhaps E'lse detected In Ib'r own your friend to open It lo make g combination lock sorure sev-- 1 f. dins toward "thi- North" ! ss distaste eral knols. nay three, aneh as are placed,' At than eho would have expected to upon drawer. With a file make a mark to make a stand any raic. siie r. on one side of each and attach the knobs f or the lost im,.:si. and to do it all to the dels of a smooth piece of round If necessary. red. like a yhr of hroomliundl. Make a! Blie thought nvr It a long time. and. u a hole In the box cover a bit larger than! roaiilt of her ihhikhig, on the Jiy of the the broom handle, so that tt will turn; parade she lid John nnd Jane to the easily therein. Make us many (tales as; ivory lowest at-- nf thR grand taand. "Wc you have knob. Three combination will h ex-- ! jean sec tt ni;.r:i liotter here." ordinarily lie sufficient protection. Ho, row we have three lira kmflie with short plained. "We wn almost touch them as they pass." pieces of broom hand le. each fitting nicely ' The the nuJn Into three holes in ths boa cover. The proofed"! cvnc slowly up were the distance of the hols from the edge of tlie street. In the -( cdrruiges ever must he the same. Make three dials clt'xcii. leading with whatever numbers or letters you do-j Th bind .iio':fil mil played vlgor-ntislelre and insk a hole In each dial the else of til- - tfoaiid Anny The of the holes in tlie cover or larger. These; Then came the ,01 th- - Hi pnhh r.illowed. dials or to be tacked lightly on to the! smart sn.l yuan rezlincnis of rover ao the hole In the dial In over the. biund m-! u.i figun-- . iwith nicely hols In (he cover. When the dlila are' ;i.n'fnrniK and hr.p.d nrw flags. attselied and the abort rods with the knohe; The men in iror.-- i past the gruinl stand, are put through the holes, tlie marks on to com bark. Ellse wheeled and t the knobs will point to the figure, on the! t was so escli'-he had nut no: iced dials, and the outside of the lock is done. the marshal of ih parade, a hnndsonic Nest get three round pieces of board.; elderly man mi ;i i:;,c horse. The time lia each with a radius a little, quite a little. come f.ir her t.i John and James sreater than the distance the hides or were s.i intent:, d in the procession that they did not roiii-- her pull her flag from her pi. krt nr-- I tlu,.i out Into tae street. I'at the j , past the young on mliltUmr-along the line. a rtitl tnmrtly squire do wlion the girl offered Imn some clierrU'? Cut out the piece of oui middle of tlie road. l"acl yok --.ssflr. .a straight ., ,, nt0 the face of the 'square: utbl if you rut it out carefully, leaving the outside line ou, auil plate it ou lhu draw its iu Hie ritht went Kllse, which answers the puzzle. J will have a new picture ;irocuion. wav.ng her strange flag. nt pae-tlm- mus-'retu- rn HOW TO A COMBINATION " LOCK. ! j ; j 1. i i . i. i s! - i ' - i ! ' I j Pi-f- gf.SR etc nt r. 'r ' t , .1 el. hcr-wi- I !'- nui-i.u- , ! . . - .'!ki-v,.in- ir-- Ezr.j.sr' ry |