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Show ( ; ..Our Boys and Girls.. , Edited by Aunt Busy. This department is conducted solely in the interests inter-ests of our girl and boy readers. ' Aunt Busy is glad to hear any time from the r.ieces and nephews who read this page, and to give them all the advice and help in her power. , Write on one side of the paper only. Do not have letters too lone Original stories and, verses will be gladly received i and carefully edited. j The manuscrips of contributions not accepted will f be returned. I i Address all letters to Aunt Busy, Ir.termountaln .1 Catholic, Salt Lake City. j AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY. j i r Pieces end Nephews: j ; Aunt Buis.v wants to hear from all the dear chil- i f drcn about the- -rcat national holiday that occurs I next month, Tlismksgrivhipr day; so she is offering a ; I vri.o which will ho a handsome hook, 1o the niece or j f nephew who will send in the best composition about I I Thanksgiving- day, its origin and observance. Do not have the essays too long nor too short, and be , j sure that the work is original. What does Aunt j ! Busy mean by original ? some dear lad or some dear f lassie will say. So here Aunt Busy will explain. 1 j Write your composition yourselves without any ' j help from sisters or brothers, mothers or fathers or I teachers. Aunt Busy does not want them corrected I even by the teachers. Wrile in your own' bright, in- i1 ? teresting manner: do not, consult anybody, then Aunt Busy will fed that ihe essays arc original, and will gladly award the prize to the one she considers f the winner. ; I . Knter your names at once as contestants for the ' I prize. j Aunt Busy would like to receive all names next j! week if possible. Then hurrah for the prize-winner, l whose name will be announced Dee. ?. Yours for I Thanksgiving Day. AUNT BUSY. I I . ;J LETTERS ANSWERS. jl "bewey, jLont., Oct..'L'4. iDear Amu liu ... 1 thought I would write to .you as I have never written before. 1 go to school "and like it very much. 3Iy teacher's name is Miss Kel- ley. Your loving niece, -MINERVA CL1YE. I Aunt Busy has a warm welcome for 'the dear j llnv Jlio,e from Dewey. Of course you like school, ;M good children do, and you are surely very good, f dear. j f ' Butte, ilout., Oct. 20. Dear Aunt Busy. How is Uncle Busy? I hope ; you are well and happy. I think you are the dearest of old ladies. Your loving niece. FLORENCE PATTON. Uncle Busy is very bad with rheumatism, but Aunt Buy is very well indeed. She is deeply grateful grate-ful for your kind opinion of her, little Florence. f Montrose, Colo, v Toar Aunt Busy. I hope you have not for- f gotten me, because I have not forgotten you. I j spent my summer in ihe east and had a fine time. Was sorry indeed to hear that the bugs and ants made the summer so unpleasant for you.. I guess jj you have not very many nieces and nephews in Montrose. I am in the. fifth grade this year. I j ride mules to school every day. A very sad thing happened in our family last April. My dear brother died, and we are very lonesome without him. I made my first Holy Communion Oct. 9 and was confirmed the same day. This is all for this time. I remain your loving niece. It " CECILIA LAMPMAN. No, dear. Aunt Busy has not forgotten you, and she is glad that you did not forget her. She deeply regrets to''hear of your dear brother's death, and she sympathizes with you in your grief. But oh! Dow much happier is the dear, dear boy! Try to ihink of his happiness, little niece, when you miss him so sorely, and the sorrow will be easier borne. Write soon again to Aunt Busy. She dearly loves to hear from beautiful Colorado. CATCHING BEARS IN RUSSIA. A gentleman was once making inquiries in Russia Rus-sia about the method of catching bears in that country. coun-try. He was told that to entrap them a pit was dug several feet deep, and after covering it over with turf, leaves, etc., some food was placed on top. The bear if tempted by the bait easily fell into the snare. "But,7' he added, "if four or five liappen to get in together they all get out again." "How is that V ' asked ihe gentleman. "They form a sort of ladder by stepping on each other's shoulders and so make their escape." "But how does the bottom one get out V "Ah. those bears, though not possessed with a mind and soul such as God has given to us, yet can feel gratitude, and they won't forget one who lias been the chief means of procuring their liberty. lib-erty. Scampering off, they fetch the branch of a tree which they let down to their poor brother, enabling en-abling him sppedily to join them in the freedom which they enjoy." Sensible bears, we should say, are a great deal better than sonic people that we j hear about who never help anybody but themselves. j ; : SOME SKIPPING ROPE GAMES. y Red, White and Blue. Two players turn a long rope, and another runs in and jumps once. All sine in chorus. "Red. white and blue," keeeping time slowly with the rope, which is turned three times high in the air above ihe jumper's head. The first turn is for ''red' the second for "white" and the third for "blue." 'As the two rope-turners lower the skipping rope to the ground, without stopping in the turning, the jumiier jumps once. The rope goes up again, and is turned three times in the air while the chorus ! is sung again. Going to Market. This is a rope-jumping game played by ihree or more. Two take an end of ihe rope and turn it as they walk along; the other players run in at the start and jump forward at. cadi turn of the rope, keeping pace with the two runners. If one trips she changes places with one of the turners. ' j A HEROIC BOY. j You boys don't want to be bravos; you want to j be true heroes, like Sir Samuel Baker and General Gordon. Ixt us then try 1o find out what true bravery is. and how a boy may be brave. Dr. Thomas Arnold was sent to a boarding school when twelve years old. His mother had taught him 1o kneel by his bedside every night and pray. He was put into dormitory with forty or lifl.v other boys. Some of them were bad boys, and ihe rest were cowards. But Thomas was no coward. In ihe midst of the noise and confusion he quietly knelt down by his cot to say his prayers. r "Sec lhal young Pharisee!" cried a big bully, and threw his pillow at him. The rest followed suit, for they were afraid of the bully. Forty pillows pil-lows were hurled at ihe brave young Christian. But he finished his prayer, and without a word of rebuke or remonstrance went to bed. This was repeated night after night. At length Ihe boys who had been taught to pray at home mustered mus-tered courage, one by one. to imitate Arnold's example, ex-ample, and in less than a month that dormitory was as quiet at bedtime as a church. The boys who did not pray themselves were compelled to respect the rights of those who did. Here we see the test and triumph of true courage. That boy dared to do right. And by hi, patient 'continuance in ,wrlWnil3 he conquered. U was. hundredfold more -a hero on his knees amid the thover of pillows, than a soldier on a battlefield amid a shower of bullets. The soldier is excited by the novelty of the scene. He thinks, too, that , he may escape, since only a certain percentage of an army -falls in battle. But. young Arnold had nothing to excite or sustain him but his faith in God. He knew that every scoff and every pillow ' was aimed at bim. He was naturally sensitive, and felt keenly the injustice and cruelty of his school fellows; and yet he never flinched. No wonder that he grew up a grand man and one of the noblest teachers of the young the world has ever seen. THE THREE BUTTONS. This story is told of a Washington school principal princi-pal who was trying to make clear to his class the fundamental doctrines of the Declaration of Independence In-dependence : "Now, boys," he said, "I will give you each three ordinary buttons. Here they are. You must think of the first one as representing Life, of ihe second one as representing Liberty, and the third one as representing the Pursuit of Happiness. Next Sunday Sun-day I will ask you each to produce, the three buttons but-tons and tell me what they represent." The following Sunday, in accordance witli his plan, Ihe teacher interrogated his class on the subject sub-ject of the buttons. "Now, Johnny," he said to the youngest member, mem-ber, "produce your three buttons ami tell me what they stand for." Whereupon the youngster began to weep. "I ain't got 'em all," he sobbed, holding out two of the buttons. "Here's Life an' here's Liberty, but mommer sewed the Pursuit of Happiness on my pants." WHO WAS THE BUILDER P There is a tale about a church that a good old king of the good old times undertook to build in honor of the Blessed Virgin. Now, as he wished to keep all the honor and merit of it to himself, he had it published throughout through-out his dominions that none of his subjects should contribute to the church. So it was built entirely at .the king's expense, and when it was finished he had an inscription in letters of gold placed over the door telling that he alone had provided the lunds. liut lo: the ionow-ing ionow-ing night an invisible hand effaced the name of the king, and in its stead put that of an old woman whose poverty was notorious. In the morning when the king was told of this, he hastened to have his name replaced, but at night the name of the old woman was again substituted. And this happened three times running. The king then flew into a great rage and ordered the old woman to be brought before him. "I had forbidden all my subjects," said he, "to contribute even ihe smallest sum toward the erection erec-tion of this church. I am convinced that you have disobeyed my orders." "Sire," replied the good old creature, 'trembling, "although it was very hard not to be allowed to contribute con-tribute my mite in honor of the holy Virgin, I respected your orders. At least, I did not think I was disobeying your majesty when I saved a trifle from nr- meals to buy a little hay, which I secretly gave to the horses that were drawing the stones for the building." "Thy name is more worthy than mine," replied the king, "to be, inscribed in letters of gold over the church door." The following night, however, an invisible hand replaced the king's name on the tablet, where it remained ever after. ; f . Remedies for Trust Evils. We know of at least four things to which we must put an end if we are to convert the trusts into friendly agencies. First, we must stop discrimina tions by railroads. avonng the big shipper lias to commend ihe plausible, argument that he makes the railroad less trouble than does the smaller shipper ship-per for a given amount of freight ; but this argument argu-ment becomes shallow enough when it is made to justify a policy of helping the big shipper to crush the small one. Equal rates for carload lots of goods of a common kind will have to be established. estab-lished. Another thing that will have to be stopped .is flooding a particular locality with goods offered at cut-throat prices for the sake of crushing a competitor com-petitor who is there operating. Economists point out difficulties in the way of this policy, and lawyers law-yers point out olhcrs. The policy is indeed a difficult dif-ficult one, but if it were an impossible policy Ave should have to make a way to success in adopting and enforcing it; and there is very little doubt that, with wisdom and determination we can do it. There is also the plan of selling one kind of goods at a cheap rate for the sake of crushing competitors, competi-tors, who make only that kind of goods, and forcing forc-ing them to sell their plants to the trust on its own terms. Putting, an end to this by law mv.y be even harder than stopping the cut-throat competition which acts locally, but it will have to be done if we arc ever to be completely free from the evils and the perils that monopolies bring. Finally, there is the "factor's agreement" the refusal by the trust to sell goods to a dealer at a living price unless he will promise not to buy any similar articles from a competitor. It is a hard and uphill road that Democracy must travel in its efforts to regulate truSts; but there is no possible doubt that it must travel by that route or go farther and fare worse. There is Socialism as an ever-present alternative. The Century. L |