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Show In the South Pacific there are many of these coral islands. They do not rise far above the waves, and usually enclose a shallow basin connected with the sea, where vessels may while outside the find smooth waves are water rolling 4}mountains high. The minute creatures that build up these formations, delight in the wild, rough waves, and in those where the water is most boister- ous and the fiercest winds prevail there they flourish in the greatest profusion. Great reefs are sometimes built up, often extending for hundreds of miles with scarcely a break in them. They raise their heads from the sea like great ramparts, and are objects of special danger to mariners, who have So warm and so rosy and smiling, So dainty and dimpled and sweet, Fashioned so strangely beguiling,. Finished so strangely complete; From the moist gold curls on the fore- _ head, To the tip of the pink little toes, Not a charm nor a grace hath been borrowed, Yet fairer art thou than a rose. Cold as the drift on the mountain, White ‘as the foam on the sea, Dainty and dimpled and white, Fashioned so sweetly beguiling, Fit only for mansions of light. FRANCES WHITE STERLING. In Waverly. [ Written for the Western Weekly.| Corals. R. I don’t think there are many of my young readers who have ever seen the ocean, but most of you I think have already formed some more or less definite conception of what its appearance is and are perhaps acquainted with many of its characteristics. But most of you likely Se hee a ge look upon it as a great waste of waters, a desert as it were, concerning which there are few matters of interest. Yet such is by no means the case. The ocean is full of wonders and is teeming with myriads of living beings, some monstrous in size, and others again so small that one must have a microscope in order to discover them. It is concerning some of these smaller ones that I wish to tell you of now, those wonderful little creatures which are generally spoken of as corals. These are found in very world, but in some much more many parts portions numerous than of the they are in others, and especially are they numerous in certain parts of the Mediterranean Sea and in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. You have often seen-and have worn quite likely rings, necklaces or other ornaments made of red coral. These are very popular on account of their bright color and are very pretty as well. Did you ever stop to think that the material of which they keep are formed was produced when in their vicinity a sharp lookout lest their ship be beaten to pieces against their rocky sides. It must not be supposed that all this work was done in a single night time for it represents the labor of long ages, ages too great for any of us to fully comprehend. But many people today enjoy the fruits of the industry of creatures that lived thousands and thousands of years ago, when the world was much younger than it is now and before the earth was fitted for the habitation of man. I might go on Still as the frost on the fountain, Never more smiling at me. Oh! nevermore, nevermore smiling, BY to to speak for a long time of many more interesting facts concerning these coral builders, but if your curiosity has been at all aroused by what has been already said, you will not find it difficult with your parents’ advice to find a means of satisfying it more completely. In conclusion I will quote you a few lines from the poet Montgomery: ‘*T saw the living pile ascend, The mausoleum of its architects, Still dying upward as their labors closed; Slime the material, but the slime was turned To adamant by their petrific touch. Frail were their frames,ephemeral their lives. Their masonryimperishable. All Life’s needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By wise economy of Providence, Were overruled, to carry on the process Which out of water brought forth solid rock.” <i. ea TAUGHT EARLY. people in the child that he never horse cars—men, knew he was doing anything noticeable. “How cunning it is,’ said a showy woman to his mother, as they sat at dinner at the public table at a hotel one day, “to hear that child: thank the waiters, and say ‘please’ when he wants anything. I never saw anything so sweet. My children have to be constantly told if I want them to thank people. How well you must have taught him that never forgets !” “He has always been accustomed to it,” said the mother. ‘We have always said ‘please’ to him when we wished him to do anything, and have thanked him. He knows no other way.” The showy woman looked as if she did not need any further explanation of the way in which habits are formed. Probably you do not.—Wide Awake. <i a selves by sending out buds, several at a die, leaving the there are built limy deposits, and thus up great beds of coral ully two thousand feet in thickness in the midst of the ocean, often forming islands on which a luxuriant vegetation Lis supported. $60- IN PRIZES, and shouldering his cross-bow, marched away to the “Rocky Mountains”—as he called the little knoll. He pinned back the door of his tent with big catch-pins, and then sat down on the ground. Everything was dreadfully still; but the bright tin pail and the bottle of milk lookcd very comfortable in the soap-box cupboard; the brave cross-bow, with its pin-pointed arrows, promised safety; while the blankets, sofa-cushion, and the soft hay were all that any reasonable camper could wish. But it was so dreadfully still! Not even the slightest baby-breeze was stirring; through a holein the crumb-cloth shone a star, and the star made outdoors seem stiller yet. Paul unbuttoned one shoe and then $30 very small boy, and somehow didn’t On 15TH, THE WESTERN Pay A PRIZE WEEKLY wit OF —§§ BSO_O0 & For mz BEST “QHRISTMAS STORY” © Five THovusanp FOR “tell,”’—not To Six PUBLICATION Tuousanp IN ITs Worps, FURNISHED CHRISTMAS NUMBER. $20 Prize Porm. $20 On DrEcEMBER afterward when Paul had grown to beso old and so big that he}! went “truly camping” far away tothe Rocky Mountains. EMPIRE DecEeMBER camping out wasn’t delightful in every way. It was nearly half-past eight. Mamma was knitting, the aunt was sewing, and the big sister was standing on the dictionary, rehearsing her elocution exercise. Nobody but mamma heard the back hall-door softly open, and the tiny feet go stealing upstairs. When the elocution exercise was over, mamma said she must go and find the mate to the stocking she was knitting. So she went upstairs; but, before looking for the stocking, she went into Paul’s room. There, in the starlight, she saw the brown curly head cuddled into its customary pillows. She was a good and faithful mamma, and so she did not laugh-—out loud. She stooped over the | half-hidden head and whispered, “Were you lonesome, dear?” and Paul whispered back, “ Kind of lonesome,—and I. heard something swallowing, very close to my head. And so I came in. And—you won’t tell, will you, mamma?” mamma $30 Pri E STORY. the other, and sat for a while listening. Then, suddenly kicking off his shoes, he scrambled under the blankets and lay quite still. He wasa women and children. A boy four years | And what was the “swallowing” that old, who, if anybody said to him, “How Paul heard so close to his head? I do you do?” answered, “I am well, think it must have been an imagined thanks;” and if .he had a request to noise. Dont you? make, be it of a friend orstranger, began Eminy H. Lenanp, it with “please.” And the beauty of it in St. Nicholas. was that the “thanks” and “please” were so much a matter of course to the by little animals, working incessantly day in and day out, building up from the depths of the ocean mountains of coral? On the Mediterranean coasts of France and Sardinia there are many persons engaged in procuring this substance from the sea, to be afterwards wrought into trinkets of various sorts—indeed, the very ring or necklace you now wear HOW A LITTLE BOY CAMPED OUT. may once have lain in the waters of the Mediterranean. In the Red Sea, too, there are large quantities of coral, which Once there.was a little boy who all add in no small degree to give the red- summer long had been very anxious to ness of appearance that its water is re- camp out over night. Behind his markable for. mother’s house was a large garden—as The coral polyps in common with a large as a whole city block—and at the large number of sea creatures have the far end of it was a large knoll, or little power to secrete calcareous or limestone hill, with rocks cropping out. It was bematter from the water they live in, which hind this hill that little Paul wished to substance at last becomes as solid and camp, for from there the house would be compact as rock,—and indeed it is noth- out of sight, and it would be “just like ing less thanrock. They generate them- truly camping.” So his mother gave time and in sets, which soon develop into fully formed animals. In this wise very beautiful designs are sometimes formed which are highly prized for their artistic beauty. 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