Show Tr u t 4 4 f if jbtlil- kj A '"'N j-- f J FOE BOYS AND GIRLS POME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS Inquisitive Boy — France Has Children’ Society That Could Be Simulated with Profit— Abe XAucoln The a a Boy The Inquisitive Bor have a little boy of nix Who sets me quite a task And often puts me In a fix By the questions that he’ll ask "What holds the moon up In the sky? Where does the sunshine go? I Why does my baby brother cry?” Are the things he wants to know "Where does the gas go when put out?” He asked me yesterday The question filled my mind with doubt I wondered what to say "If all the good people that die” Says he "In heaven are crowned Why don’t they go up In the sky Instead of In the ground?” "Who lights the stars up every night And turns them out at dawn? What makes the snow so very white? Where Is the new year born? Why have all Negroes curly hair? What makes their skin so black? What makes a wheel go round and where Do old ducks get their quack? "Why can't we see the wind at all? What makes the water wet?” These and such questions dally fall From the wee lips of my pet He’s most embarrassing at times Interrogating me Yet when upon my knee he climbs I’m happy as can be! — Twinkles League of League of the ' Children The Children of France has Just terminated the second year of Its existence Mile Lucie Faure daughter of the president of France Is the organizer and promoter of the movement The object of the society is to arouse the interest of children In other children of less fortunate circumstances President Faure spends two mornings each week visiting the hospitals and other charitable institutions Mile Faure is in the habit of accompanying her father on Buch missions Inasmuch as she had turned her attention more particularly to the hospitals and homes of children It has naturally been the Ills of these waifs that have appealed most strongly to her sympathies ' In driving back to her home from the asylum Bhe passed through the rich quarters of the city and caught sight of the dainty maidens and wee men arrayed In costly laces and furs their arms often full of toys the contrast between the suffering she had just left and the luxury paraded before her eyes filled her mind with a longing desire to arrive at some means which would repair this injustice of fate The New York Tribune states that Mile Faure after some deliberation finally hit upon the Idea of Invoking the assistance not of the grown-u- p rich but of their children for the purpose of brightening the existence of the children of the poor and with that object benches consisted of logs split tn the middle and placed along the walls "There was Just one bench made of plank which It was considered a great privilege to sit upon “While little ‘Abe’ was fond of play he was most diligent in his studies and learned to read well at the first session I remember seeing him bending down saplings for horses this was his favorite amusement at play time He was an extra good boy and never got & whipping I remember particularly his unfailing good humor and his gentle manners I do not feel as I did when I used to play with little ‘Abe’ Lincoln at the old Knob creek ‘school in 1816” This quaint and interesting letter discloses the humanness of the hoy Lincoln as well as the vivid memory of his oldtime schoolmate — New York Tribune Drey fa to Hi Children London Dally News: If only one can suppose Capt Dreyfus to have been Innocent of the odious offense Imputed to him a letter of h!s to his little boy which Is published In the Paris pa- full of pathos It runs thus: Little Pierre: Papa sends you plenty of kisses and to little Jeanne also Papa often thinks of you both You will teach little Jeanne to make pretty towers with wooden bricks very high like those I used to make for you and which tumbled over bo delightfully B very good Give plenty of nice caresses to your mother when she Is sad Be very nice too with have grandfather and grandmother some good ‘larks’ with your aunts (In the original the word Is ‘niches which means harmless little practical Jokes) When papa comes back from his Journey you will come and meet him at the station with little Jeanne with mamma with everybody Once more with many kisses for you and little Jeanne your papa” pers Is “Dear Exercises for ths Fingers the phlegmatic Hollander has nothing else to do he whiles away the time by twirling his thumbs There are better methods of dispelling ennui however For example place both hands together In such a manner as to have the backs of the two middle fingers joined Now try to spread out the thumbs and the other fingers from the tips This will be found easy enough with the thumbs the Index and the little fingers but try It with the ring fingers and this kind of gymnastics When becomes decidedly interesting Exercise No 2 is not so difficult and some can do it after the first trial but there are others who can never per- form the apparently easy feat This may also be said of the third exercise Here the condition is not in view founded the League of the Children of France Each member pays a subscription of $1 a year Starting out with an initial fund of $700 the league in Paris alone has now an annual revenue through subscriptions of $200000 derived entirely from young people The object of the league is to relieve individual suffering and assist children to establishin obtaining admission ments where they will be cared for and their future assured Within the last twelve months branches have been organized In most of the principal towns and cities of France The league serves to bring together the children of the various classes of society and promotes that species of fraternity which Is the source of true democracy establishing a bond of union between them Abe Lincoln n Boy We referred In this column a few days ago to the fact that the report that there was only one surviving schoolmate of Abraham Lincoln was a mistake and mentioned Mrs Susie Yeager of Rineyville Ky as another schoolmate of Lincoln’s when she atIn support of tended his first session this statement Rev Dr James M Yeager president of Drew Seminary for Young Women Carmel N Y who has compiled a brief history of the Yeager - Buffington Creighton-Jacob- s families received a letter from Mrs Yeager written in her 91st year in which she says: "I went to school with Abraham I remember ‘Abe’ Lincoln Lincoln well as a little bit of a fellow He was then 7 years old and I was 10 ‘Abe’ and his sister Nancy walked a distance of several miles to the school house which was situated on Knob where it Joins Rolling Fork creek In La Rue county then a part of Hardin My father Zacbarlah RIneywas 1818 1 can the tfeacher This was in -see 'the old schoolhouse now It was built of rough logs as all schoolhouses were In those days They were so arranged that the ends stuck out and in which the formed little recesses These children played were the favorite hiding places for little ‘Abe’ The schoolhouse had no windows but one log removed the whole length of the building served to give light The floor was of dirt Ths hide-and-se- ek BESSIE “Oh Felix!” she cried out wttJi a great sob In her throat “I see It all L TS only Bessit ven” said Mrs RaLld-dingt- to her niece Mrs Enfield a blooming city matron who had brought her two boys to the country for the summer “I wouldn’t let Hal and Felix associate with her on any acwere you There’s no good count If I In any of those Ravens— a vile low bare-legg- self-sufficie- nt se to permit the least bend in the two Professional Etiquette An eminent physician had a valuable cow which became sick and seemed likely to die He asked an Irish servant who lived with him if he knew anybody who followed the cow doctoring The doctor’s groom said: “There’s Jemmy Lafferty who can cure any cow In the world” “Well then” replied the doctor “go for Lafferty” The cow doctor accordingly came and treated the brute for four or five days and oh the lapse of due time he waited on Dr Lpwis and pronounced her cured The doctor greatly delighted put his hand to hlB pocket-boo- k “Well Lafferty what do I owe you?” “Owe me!” replied Jemmy drawing himself up with dignity “nothing sir we doctors niver take money of one another” “My first impulse” said the doctor while telling the story “was to throw his fee alter him but on second thought the whole affair seemed sa ridiculous that I bowed him my acknowledgments with as much gravity as I could assume” Money b useful as a servant but rannical as a master ty- mm anything” blue-blac- LITTLE THIEF!” - half-hidde- Tennyson’s Tribute AT HOMB to Her tVrlttca t Veers Ago I Mrs Gladstone recently celebrated 'her 86th birthday and every one wished her all possible happiness says the ed There’s lots of ’em — only everybody don’t know It Come on!” And the two children spent a long summer’s morning together under the green trees Until Just as Felix Enfield was turning to go home half apprehensive that dinner he had missed the farm-houhe did not perceive that the little gold cross he wore attached to his watch-chai- n was gone “Oh!” cried he “where is my— — ” He stopped abruptly For In the very moment in which he spoke he pern In the folds of the" celved bosom of Bessie’s tattered dress the gleam of some golden ornament Involuntarily he caught at it— it wad his own “You little thief” srled he “you must haTe stolen It!” Bessie stood sullen and silent her eyes cast down her hare feet impatiently patting the velvety grass below She could not deny It— she scorned any attempt to justify herself “Bessie” Bald the boy slowly “what made you do It? Don’t you know that it is wrong to steal?” “Wrong!” cried out Bessie passionately “Why is It wrong You are rich and I’m poor! You’ve got everything and I’ve got nothing! Why shouldn’t I help myself when I’ve gat the chance?” Felix Enfield looked at her Verily there was more In her creed than he had realized ‘Til tell you why Bessie” said he “At least I’ll tell' you what I think about it” 60 In his boyish way he unfolded the philosophy of meum and tuum Bessie Raven listened In surprise She had never been reasoned with before No one had ever taken the 'trouble to explain matters and things in general to her GLADSTONE Twenty-Seve- n “Don’t cry Bessie!” soothed the lad “Don’t fret that’s a good girl! Here — take the gold cross and keep It I don’t care much for it” So they parted At home Felix found that his father had come to take them up into the mountains for a few weeks before they returned to their city home— and so he never got the set” chance to tell Bessie Raven good-b- y at the looked Mrs Enfield pityingly little gypsy brown-face- d Ten years afterward! Three and who had slunk around the back door is a dangerous age for flirtatwenty blackberries luscious a basket of late on her arm and the deep flush that be- tions but Felix Enfield had never been tokened how plainly she had over- seriously smitten until that time when heard Mrs Liddlngton’s careless words he crossed the Atlantic In the steamer Will 0’ the Wisp and fell in love with still dyeing her cheeks the captain’s Spanish-eye- d daughter “Only Bessie Raven!” How often “If you don?t marry me” said Felix she had heard that phrase How bitter a meaning did It convey to her with comical earnestness “I’ll throw myself into the sea” ears “There’s not much danger of that” said Miss Richfield quietly You there! trout no “There are I am In earnest!” protested “But a wait and year a bait throw might Felix and you wouldn’t get a bite!” “So am I!” said the damsel with the It was a deep solitary ravine where k eyes in attitudes of Intense eagerness Hal “Don’t were you love me?” pleaded Felix Enfield and his brother Felix “I don’t dislike you” demurely anholding their fishing rods awaiting the swered Miss Richfield Raven’s Bessie while bite expected “Then I shall hope” reclared Felix brown face and big black eyes looked “Hope Is a commodity that is free out at them from a natural oval frame of bushes and vines as she held a to all!” said the young lady But at the voyage’s end Mr Enfield basket In one hand and her tattered was deeper In love than ever sun bonnet In the other “Look here Miss Richfield" said he little Hal Enfield 'a aristocrat by nature as well as by “If you don’t say you’ll have me I education drew himself haughtily up won’t leave the steamer’s deck! I’ll “I don’t know that we asked any go back and forth perpetually between from you” said he New York and Southampton!” information “I don’t think papa would care for the goodness to be “Have haughtily so permanent a passenger" said Miss about your business” Richfield with a mischievous twinkle ‘T won’t!” retorted Bessie Raven with an ominous flash in her dark in her eyes “But really! Do you know Miss ain’t It? eyes “It’s a free country I believe you are engaged alRichfield as much I’ve as you And right here have!” ready” She colored a little “Very well” said Hal rising and “I’ll tackle "Why?” she asked gathering together his “Ah! you think I have no eyes You Felix” Come then go But Felix the younger brother had think I haven’t perceived that you no idea of leaving his cool shady nook always wear a black velvet ribbon around your neck — a black velvet ribfor a whim of Hal’s bon from which Is suspended some Hal stalked away in high dudgeon Felix remained behind to cultivate the trinket of gold hidden In the lace frills of your collar Is It a gauge?” acquaintance of Bessie Raven “Yes” Miss Richfield calmly an“If there are no trout here” said he composedly eyeing the brown gypsy swered “it is a gauge of true love If ” face among the leaves “where do they I ever am married “If” almost scornfully ejaculated hide?” “I’ll show you” said Bessie with the lover “Well when I am married” Miss alacrity ‘‘Just a piece further on Richfield corrected herself “It will only be to the gentleman who gave me this!” “Then I may consider myself rejected?” slowly spoke Felix with a face of the bitterest chagrin dam‘‘Not quite” said the dark-eye- d sel soltfly as she drew the golden talisman from her throat and held It toward him “Don’t you remember who gave me this?” He uttered an exclamation of recog- “YOU lower parts of the Index Auger In exercise No 4 it Is Imperative that the fingers remain stretched out straight Try some of these experiments when you have an Idle ten minutes and you will be surprised to find them not half so easy as they appear in the picture now But no one ever told me before And father was lost at sea and mother had us little ones to take care of and somehow everyone’s hand was against usi and we had to fight our way along o I got somehow not to care a!xu MRS London Chronicle She has been a veritable “angel In the house” and her loving care for her distinguished husband has passed into a proverb Mrs Gladstone’s vitality Is marvelous and she preserves as active an Interest In her many philanthropic works as of old The eldest daughter of Sir Stephen Glynne Catharine Glynne and her sister attracted great admiration when they appeared In London society When the Glynnes were on the continent In 1839 they met very frequently Mr Gladstone who was even then a notable politician having already filled the office of under secretary for the colonies and also that of of the board of trade Mr Gladstone’s closest friend Lord Lyftleton had made as favorable an impression on the younger Miss Glynne as Mr Gladstone had made on her eldest sister with the result that all fashionable London was shortly after this visit to Italy interested to hear of the bethrothal of the two young politicians to the two lovely sisters The weddings took place on the same day July 25 1839 Mrs Gladstone’s good works began at a period when It was not so fashionable as for gentlewomen to frequent the slums Intent on ameliorating the condition of the poor She was especially busy at the time of a devastating epidemic which scourged the east end of London many years ago and Bhe was very frequently a visitor to the London hospital Many a poor convalescent has had reason to bless the name of Mrs Gladstone In connection with the home which bears her name At one sees at once how large aj part philanthrophy plays In Mrs Glad- -j stone’s beneficent life There is her' boys’ home close to the castle and not far from it Is the home in which some old ladies ore thanks to her kindness spending the evening of their days In peace Tennyson’s words will find echo In many a heart “One could' not but feel humbled In the presence of those whose life was evidently one and one would hope) long quickened to more of it in one’s own life Mrs Gladstone wears herself out by all her hospital work In addition’ to the work of a prime mlslster’s wife’! That tribute was written twenty-seveyears ago and Mrs Gladstone is still abel to enjoy fairly good health In heri old age 4 vice-preside- nt to-d- J Ha-ward- en to-da- 1 i y: self-sacrifi- K I 1 n! j '1 ) f j TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE Ons Will Be Seen by the People America on May 88 1900 of The people of America will have fr very unusual chance to see a total solar1 eclipse right here at home on May 28! 1890 Astronomers are even now study- - ' ing the meteorological tables for past! years in order to find the localities' promising clearest skies says tha The line of totality Washington Post first touches the continent on the Pad- fle coast in Mexico north of Cape Co- -j nition rientes pursuing a northeast course “It is the golden cross I gave years leaving Mexico at the mouth of the Rio ago to Bessie Raven!” cried he Grande crossing the gulf of Mexico and! “Yes” she said quietly “and I am entering the United States at Atchafa- -' Bessie Raven” The breadth ofl laya bay Louisiana “You!" the line is about fifty miles The eclipse' “Yes My mother died shortly after will be total at New Orleans at abouti you gave me this My uncle who had 8:22 a m Thei Washington time Just returned from the West adopted will be visible in Macon Raleclipse us all Two of my sisters are in boarding-sNorfolk and intermediate and' eigh chool My brother is being eduneighboring Crossing the oceani cated in a German university And I the land firstpoints touched is near the port am my uncle's adopted daughter of Coimbra Spain passing southeast known only by his name” across southern Europe and the Medi- -' “But Bessie you said you would terranean sea Thus all the astronomarry the one who gave you that!” mers in both hemispheres will be withcried out Enfield in easy distance and with every facll-- ’ “So I will” confessed Bessie laughity for using 'any amount of Instrumening and blushing “if he Is still in- tal equipment The greatest duration fatuated enough to persist in wanting will be two minutes nine seconds me” about the middle of the Atlantio ocean They were married within a month — a regular match — and old Couldn't Beat Him Mrs Liddington finds herself A little boy from California who had to “only Bessie Raven!” been about a great deal Is spending “And really” says she complacentthe holidays with his Washington cously “I don’t think Felix could have ins He has enjoyed the sights of the made a better match!” — New York capital but he hasn’t permitted himself Dally News to be in the slightest degree overawed by anything he has seen His cousins took him—“carried” him they said of Courtesy of the Old School From the San Francisco News Let- It themselves— to the National Museum ter: Everybody knows Col Caldwell one day and called his attention to a The colonel Is a Virginian of the old great log of petrified wood lying just school The colonel’s piety has con- outside the door The little Califor- densed into one creed courtesy to nian had been a little depressed but women He never leaves a room with he brightened up at the sight ‘“I’ve a lady in It without backing through seen a whole tree like that” he said the door Miss N who is very prac- The Washington cousins maintained remarked the other evening: their composure “We’ve got a whole tical forest of trees like that out west” went “Col Caldwell have you eyes on the on the young westerner Still the would head?” “I have hack of your were not at all ImWashingtonians them madam were you behind me” The California boy drew & An acquaintance the other day asked: pressed “We’ve got a whole woods breath long “Colonel do you always back away of he said “Yes and trees” putrefied from the ladles?" “I do suh! but I they’s putrefied birds sitting on ’em don’t back down from the men suh!” and— and” with one last effort to disA lady much given to Browning askturb the calm of his ed the following question receiving companions “they’re singing putrefied the following answer: “Ool Caldwell songs too” —Washington Post Is falling In love an evidence of reason?” “My dear madam” replied the Why Isn’t a man a thief when hft colonel “In love we desert the calm hooks hls wife’s dress? of logic and surrender ourselves to the Why are servant girls seldom obdelirium of Instinct” servant? t t J i - J i I i t A A true-lov- e grand-aunt-in-Ia- rose-tint- 1 w f ed V” A Tf ) |