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Show FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. BOMB GOOD STORIED FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. A Utile llahy lle.r "I rank'. Ilreum," 1'rrlly Mary for Juniors VII Ihe Itnj. II. , War When School Is (Iter A Ural at Heroltm. Itnndel-Thal Summer Day That summer day so toni; sow. We ml and telkeil. w. two and then And wateiml the shsaewea river new, Thai summer day. And when the evening lamed la ry. And distant lishls btH to aiew They mM farewell and went swsy. lint when I saw those levr so. I loM eu all my heit wnul.1 sy Teu answered-and irlel so. That rammer day. William llsk llrewtr. A I llllo llahy Hear. If I gavo jou ten guesses you would use them all. and still not be nblo to tell mo what I saw today. Do you glvo It upT Well, It was a tiny baby bear. A hunter had caught him In tho wools and brought blm to town In his arms. As soon as 1 heard of him I invited the baby to tpend part of a day with me. and wo had great fun playing together. t.ong ago I used to have a picture ot Santa Claut, a fat little man. all dressed In a fur suit, and when I saw the baby bear I could almost bcllofo that my ptcturo had come alive He had the same short woolly legs and fat roly-poly body; and there, too, was the droll, grave fare looking as It be were trying to keep from laughing He ramo right Into the house, as it ha hid known me all the thrro weeks of hit life; and walked about under the chairs ' and tables, for ho was no larger than a big rat. Ills llttla pointed black noso went Into everything tbat he saw, but as soon as he had got a good emcll he trolled away and put his note Into something else. He seemed to be hunting hunt-ing for somo smell that he had known In the woods, where he was born and had lived so cosily, snuggled up to his mother's nlro black fur When he got through with the legs of things, he went higher. Hlght up to the tiptop ot a great armchair he climbed, and hung himself across tho back as If ho wero hanging himself out to dry There he rested a little while: then, drawing himself Into a ball, off he rolled on tn the floor with such a thump that I thought he must have hurt himself. Hut he thought not. for without even waiting to rub hit knees, he ran across the floor to stand up on his hind feet In front of my bookcase Ho reached out ono ot his soft paws, and patted the hacks ot the books, as If to say: "I like you very much, but I bavo not time to read you Just now," I am sure you would have thought him very cunning It you had seen him tipping about on his hlud feet with a tiny yellow orango In his arms. He hugged It tight against Ma breast and seta row of wco baby teeth In Ihe akin. Hut I did not catch a glimpse of hit tongue until I gave him Ihe hand mirror. mir-ror. The moment he saw the baby bear In Ihe glass, n pink tongue, like a curled roso-leaf, came out and mado loving llttla smudges all oyer the bright glass. Agstn and again he lifted up the glass and peeped underneath to find the baby bear behind It. I suppore he wanted a Rood hug besides the kisses, and I don't wonder, for ho waa soft and nice to squeexe. When his dinner time came I gave him his milk In a bottle with n rubber top. When he saw It ho rovried out and whimpered for it Just , a hungry baby doet. He stood up , 10k tho bottle between hla front paws and, tipping It up, suckrd away so fast that soon there waa no milk left. Then when ho saw that It was all gone he lifted up hla little black coat-aleovo coat-aleovo and wiped off hit milky mouth On hla way back to his home the children got about blm on the strost and laughed and Jumped about him, clapping their hands, but lie seemed to like tho fun and made tbem laugh louder by Handing up on his hind legt snd walking like n running little man. Ho wanted to stay out In the street to play some more when he got home, but you see It was past bear bedtime, and bo had tn be taken in. I am glad to bo able to tell you that he did not cry at all aa ho trotted In and found hla own little bed, that must have seemed nice and home-like, all ready for blm In the corner. I-ouleo H. Wall, In Bt Nicholas. All American Sailor's lel. Lewlslown (Me.) Journal: Itemlnli-eences Itemlnli-eences of Commodore Dewey aro almost as numerous In Maine thla week as stories of Hsppabannock. One of tbe latest has William (1. tlrant, the keeper ot the Matlnlcus light for Us hero. It was on a windy day In ISC I that Commodore Com-modore Dewey was executive officer on the United States vessel Colorado, on which William (Irani wss a seaman The Colorado was steaming Into Hampton Hamp-ton Hoads, Vt. towing a large boat-load boat-load of sailors, when the boat capsized and In a moment every one was struggling strug-gling In the water All but one, however how-ever succeeded In getting on Its bottom He sank. A boat was lowered from the Colorado, William (Irani being one of Ihe men assigned to it The men rowed with a will and toon reached the overturned over-turned boat and Ihe sailors clinging to Its bottom They had to much bead-way bead-way that the boat shot over the place where the unfortunate man went down, Mr Orant was In tbe bow-, keeping sharp lookout for him when he came to tbe surface. As the boat morod tlong he looked down Into the water, which was very clear, and plainly saw the man near the surface, tike a flash be scrambled to tbe stern ot tbe boat ind without hesitating a second dived mmmmmmmm over the coxswain's head for thi H drowning msn. He calculated Just right, snd In a moment had him by H the collar and succeeded In bringing H him to the surface, lloth men wero H taken Into the boat, nnd otter hard H work the half-drowned tailor wm re- jl vl red The next day Dewey as execu JHffl live officer called Mr Orant up to ths IsaaHll quarter deck, snd before everyone fsasstVI thanked htm cordially for his brnvery EB In rescuing the sailor A few years ago flfll when Dewey, then commodore, visited HHE tbe Maine mast and culled 'upon Orant HfflQrl at Matlnlcus, the Incident was recalled fWfVrl and Commodore Dewey again com pi U i&avK menlrd Mr. Orant HtsaaH |