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Show !flBBBBBBnBB YoIujoyjTand onus SOME GOOD BTORIEB FOR OUR juNion rtEAonns. A lltlla Cretan', Mow tha llafa elf roverad at Taw Anittaemant A iraa Nlory An r inbarraatatl alodial1 Ulad4lone aa m II07. A Mrslarr. riawara from Hods of clay and mud! Klowera so bright, and araaa eo grtft' Trll me. blade, and leaf, and bud. How It la you re alt so clean. If my tinners touch Iheae and. Ha, ther're atraaknl wllh atltky etrt Val you epflnjr from clayey clod, Ture. ami fraah and fair from blrta )o you waah yourarlt al nlaht In a bath nf diamond dew. That you look an rreeh and bright When Iha morning dawna on youT Und perhapa, eenda aummer showers, Whan Iha araaa irum gray for rata. Tn wah Iha face of Ilia flowcra. And bid Ilia nehli be green again. Telt me Made, and leaf, nnd bud 1 Klowara an fair, and grata eo gre,i, Growing oul or rUy and mlid. How It Is y nu re all en clean (labrlel tleloui A llllli. I'jrli.na. Her tram was born nnd had spent ill hie lite on a Knns.is prnlrle. He 111 never watched the waves rolling In from the ocean, nor picked up thtlls along the shore, nor dug wells In tie anndy beach He had never llitet.nl tn tha wind as It sight gently through the tops ot the pine trees. Indeed, he had never seen any real woods it ill. nor any high hills; and he knew nothing noth-ing about great rVcks that are to nke to climb upon and that make such lore-1) lore-1) cavrw to hide oneaelf under, Pot he knew all about how the men on tho plains ride over the range to brltl the rattle together In a spring "routd- up" He had often played at "throwing "throw-ing a rope" lo laato the stalks of tie tall sunflowers that blcom so thickly over the western plains. He had aeta great fires rushing madly through tie dry prairie grata He had even teen halt a dnten fire nt a time far tit on the great round line In which tie wldo sky shut Iteelf down over tie wide earth lie also knew how hard the winds could blow ncrote the greet open plains When the spring wlnsa came blowing all the .""ay from tat flulf of Mexico or the I'ar ocean. Her-tram Her-tram used to natch the great routd "tumble need' as they rolled rapidly along faster than n horse could gil lop Sometimes when tho wind gre fiercer than usual. It brought a thick cloud ot dust to choke tha br-ith aid blind the sight. Then llortram would ran Into the house as fast as his lri could carry him, and shut his eyes almost fearing that tha little home would bo lilted front Its foundation 'n.Sptte,Nelth.lim-wot 'n.Sptte,Nelth.lim-wot five yearn old his mother took him lo New Kngland to visit hlsgranl-mother hlsgranl-mother and some cousins Ihatne had never aeen llertram though the rooms In his grandmother's hou-e were very large largo enough for houies. ho said. He wat never tired of running run-ning up and down the stairs, because ho had never before lived In A houee uhor Ihe.-o were any stalrwnli to be climbed. One day Bertram's uncle brought home from the city i Urge box. and told Ilrrtram and hli little couiln Krank that this cotttalnel something some-thing which they would like to tet When they opened Iho box they found In It rt toy village There wai a church with a steeple, a posloOci. a school house, a store and some smtlltr houses There were a good miay little lit-tle trrei to shade the village tad a number of little men and women to walk about Ita streets. There wat 1I10 a depot nnd a train ot can to bring people tn and from the town llota of tho children were drllghlrd "hey took the IHtle thlngi out ot the box and looked at them one by one Then they began to build the town, Frank had often been to the city with hit father, and thought that he knew oil about how a town thould be bullL He did not think that llertram knew much about townt Bo It happened that almoit all the things (hit Bertram Ber-tram act up Irank would toon chtnge to another place, llertram toon began be-gan to feel that It was all r'nsk'i town, and that he wai being left out of tho play Ho looked very sober for a few mlnutrti. He stopped working and watched tho little town at It pew up under Frank's busy fingers, nut he was all the time thinking how he could have a share In the pity hlnuelf. At latt a new thought enme to him Ibe town wat Just finished, with ill the trera and houses set up to beautiful order, and tha little men and women walking quietly around tht ttrtots. Then llertram cried out "Here comet a ilyronet" and filling his little ianE( with air, he blew out a great wlnj of breath In two seconds half of the town lay In a heap, with the trlghtertetl little men and women burled milcr tho overturned houses Krank looVej up, feeling halt angry Hut Dertrtm's e)N were shining He wat not cross or naughty, he only wanted to lure a part In the play Krank a eyes bpKm to shine, too. This was a new kind of tun 80 he sal 1. That wn tll. xnrd. sure enough! Now all tht men will have to go lo work and bull, the town over again " Then with n.l laugh both ot the bays set to work with a will, and soon the town waa built up again as good as ever When It wai finished the second lira Frank ran to hit grandmother and whispered something In her ear Orandnuma milled, went up lo the atile, and brought down un old pair nf UIIoiH that ivsed to blow up the fires q, tn, great kitchen chimney a hun lrd rea,i ago, Iltrlram now look. Utn great curlotliy whl'e IVu, (ook tn0 Itllow and in uli aw I thM bIew mmmmmmmm several of the little men and women half-way across the dining room ear-pet. ear-pet. After this, whenever Prank and llertram set up the toy village, the very best part of the play was the time when the cyclone eame, and trees and bouse and men and women tumbled tum-bled down together In a heap of inlus Miry Hall Leonard. A True nlory. Old Dapple was so tired when haying-time was over that grandpa said he should rest a whole week, with oats for dinner every day. "You re the fjlthfulett old fellow!" grandpa utd, warmly atroklng Djpple'a old tow back and forth back and forth, lovingly. lov-ingly. "Now you shall have a holiday and munch bay Instead of rakn It Walt; I'll trundle the big rake under the mow, out of your alght, so you'll forget there was ever any such thing In the world at work " Then grandpa went In to dinner with grandma and The Twins evD body called them The Twins, with capital I a In their volcea when they said It It was quite late In the afternoon when grandpa asked The Twins lo lead oul old Dapple Dap-ple to water "I-et him stay and drink at long aa he wants to," ho called after them. "You neeun'l wait ho knowt the way back alune." Bo old Dapplo stood and drank lilt fill of the clear, tweet water, and Tha Twins ran back to their play. Hut It wasn't long before be-fore grandpa taw them coming toward him at a scamper lloth their faces were excited, and they shouted In a little, lit-tle, brealhlost chorus Tho Twlm ut-ually ut-ually spoke In chorus' O, grandpa! grandpa' quick' look up In the mow-In-; field' Old Dapplo'i up there rakln' hay all atone, 'thout any rnka or any hayl He's goln' back and forth and back and forth like everything!" And when grandpa got on hit "fur-oflt" and looked, ture enough there waa faithful old Dapple up In the mowing-field, patiently pa-tiently trudging up and dawn, making neat turnt at the end of every "bout!' Ills tired old legs wavered untteadlly, but kept on The afternoon ittntblno lay on his rough back and dulled his old eyes on tho return trips, but ha never thought of stopping Something suddenly dimmed grandpa'i "fur-offt." nnd he toik them off ' Faithful old fellow' fel-low' " be muttered "io lead him back, children, and give him oats for lilt supper sup-per And how Thi T.vlns hugged him while they were doing HI Constance Hamilton, UhliMnne a, n liny. I William Kwarl (lladitone, at the age of IS was Ibe best looking boy who ever entered Kton, nnd the brightest fellow who ever left It. He was always al-ways proud to claim membership with one of the old families of commerce, and to the lout declined all honors and titles offered him by tho queen, preferring pre-ferring lo remain "one of the people." Hit mother traced her ancestry to tho royalty of the fourteenth century. Bhe wtaVwomtn of very-great accomplishments, accomplish-ments, nnd exacted obedience from her six children Otadstone'a earlier life waa pawed under the direct care of this wlsn and watchful mother Her boys wero required to perform some manual labor, and to take much physical exercise, ex-ercise, and were Instructed In wood-sawing wood-sawing and carving, A man's treatment treat-ment ot his wife la a reflection nt his mother's memory. In Oladstone'i beautiful study, called the "Temple ot Peace," wero three desks one for political po-litical and business corretpondence.one for literary work and one for Mm Oladstone, who was a most discreet, at well at able, woman, nnd had not only the gift ot silver-tongued speech, but ot golden silence when occasion required An rmbarraaaed Kludent. Mr. Bpurgeon used to tell u good story about one ot his divinity students, stu-dents, it was his custom, In order to tetl the powers ot the jouug men for speaking, to give them, as they wero about to ascend tho pulpit, a text to illscounc about on their own plan and In their own words. This, of course, was not befora an audlenco, but simply among thomselvei for practice. On the occasion referred to, he gave to a joung man, who at yet had not tried tho ordeal, the simple word, "Zac-chneus." "Zac-chneus." Tha young mau, trembling from head to foot, laid 'I will divide my subject Into three parts, First, We read that Zacchaeus wat small nt stature, stat-ure, and I never felt smaller than the present moment. Berond, We read that Zacchaoua climbed n tree, which reminds mo of my ascent Into this pul pit. Third, Wo read that Zacchaeus made haste to come down which accordingly ac-cordingly I will now do." Whether this man ever became a great preacher or not, we are not told, but ha certainly showed that be potsessed ready wit. lean llama. Here It a "olty, Jolly game A bag of beano Is brought In nrtl every one prosmi putt his or her band In It and takes a few beans, which are held In tha hand until all are served, Then they are to count the beans, and all who have odd numbers to form In lino on tha right, and all with even number! num-ber! to form In a line on the left Then the first person on the right line starts over to the left aide and gives ona In that Una a bean as long as they last, and then he or sho alts down The tame time the first one on the left be-glns be-glns to give out what beans he or she ha on the right line, and when they aro all gone, he or she sits down Tho next couplo do the same, and to on until all the brant are given out. The latt couple by thlt time hat all the beans, and If one It dropped a burnt cork I brought and a little mark Is put on the face of each one, and when the total It counted the one hiving the odd number It to have the black marks put oa for every bean In exceta of tht number the other has The one hiving hiv-ing the odd number nt Ihe end of the ganie It "oli maid or old bachelor " |
