| Show lOll BOYS AND GIRLS BOMIC 0000 STORIES FOR OUR JUNION READERS llnb c f rtllU 1111 Crinihl In a IUit rl While C trjFnt Undo Cams > UII dint or t Mmirf testsr5 Ite ttsJJ she 1hhI fnes ftlrthdy ICVItNTHKV rosi Irucln III n ring Thick with Idlir I flower IIi 4r I-Ii In n fmiirant cor ohel t t Iucyn servants Dil r day trliiK t He It Die Mrthd r J trrralh ss NMr 7 l Jrelh IIIt fair end Gel L lIIoolllnlt The young nllllllr IIr hr peen The sweet blushes III her epring rWin of youth and love and hope Irlemlly 1 htart your jan greet ja-n you ever fair nail sweet And grow lovelier as > 1111 5pe1 t trestle minding fenced shout With fond carr and KUirded so Hearro jouvo heard of storm with out 1rosU that bile or wind that blow Kindly IlIA your life hens t And we pray that heaven may send To our floweret K warm pun A elm Hummer n sweet end And here shall bo tier homo May clue deeorale I the place Rtltl exiwndlmt Inln Mimin And dvveloplnjr In glue llali Cirj1 IrrrlbU lllle Some jean ago Fort Union I had n dally mall tom Helena Tho stage < roach brollht It three day of the week nod on tho alternating da > s the mall suck was brought on horseback or InS In-S light wagon Tho wagon wn driven lIT n young boy Hob Iascy by name Thl boy knew the road perfectly and was warmly dressed and perhaps his people were not old enough to tho IOlIntr to know that ho could l bo In danger from blizzards Ono Trlday morning an hour after 1I0b had left Bun Him landing ror Denton n blizzard of the wildest ilo rlpllon let In In n tow moment tho road wa obliterated and rendered ex netly like nil tho rest of tho bounillei plain Hob hint no Idea which way ho was going and decided that hit only chance was to give lie hone till head and let him KO where ho would Tho IIIAI wa mall and the wagon light and 10 was Hob and ho had no doubt the animal would pull through somewhere here Hut before long thn horse was na lopclemly lout as thin I > oy tie wan ered and wandered and mind no way out ot tho desert Tho blizzard In ecaied In Intensity nnd 01 Hob was well wrapped on IIII scat he could do no better than continue to alt thero and keep the horse going This he did thrnuihmit the whole of n dreadful day that n seemed to Hob and doubtles to homo too longer than an ordinary week At lait night come on and Just nt thl lime Hob nnd hi hone truck n con Mer M patch ot tall grata tho top s of which rams up through tho snow Hero Hob decided to camp for the night He could at least rood the hone with tho grass though thero Will no rood for himThough Though tits storm itlll raged with unhallng fury Hob aurccedcd In mak log n Ira by pulling and mailing the tall grass and got through the night alive In tho morning tho sun shore brightly though tho One powdery mow itlll filled thus nlr Hob could not make out where ho was nothing was plain to him except that he WU far from the road to Ilenton and that not a single familiar object met tuts gaze but he itlll listed to the horse to find the way Mounting his scat cold and very hungry he gave the rein to the horse and bade him go on On he did go but not In the right direction The endless march nf the day before was repealed The weather was frightfully cold Here and there where n bunch of tall crass came through tho snow tho horse topped to browse and Hob let him do to aa often as ho wlihod Another night camo and another day and data and night after these and allll Hob and thn hone and wagon wandered l gelling farther and farther away from civilization all tho limo tbo hone supporting life by brnw Mug the gruel but Hob slowly growing weaker nnd freezing for Iho weather conllnucJ Intensely cold Meanllma Ibo people nf Renton hail started nut to search for the missing boy The whole region between Hun Hlver nail Ilenlon arts thoroughly searched but no trnco of either horse or boy A week after the disappearance disappear-ance tho search was abandoned The people had no doubt that boy and hone had perished In the alorm and been covered up by tbo drifting snow Hut valuable letters belonging In a mining corporation were In tho mall hag and ten day after Hob had ills ippcarcd sonic nf Iho partle Interested 1 In these letter employed Hilly Itowo y go out In search of tho bagnot ol DobHilly Hilly went on horseback anti rode < far and wide Passing aver come rUIng I rU-Ing ground ho thought ha perceived i moving object In n distant coulee and went Inward It As he approached ho laW that It woe a hone slowly drawing a light fiiion fled that In the wagon was icaled u mall human Ig urn At length Hilly saw that It was Hob CaseY and the nmll nagon Dob seemed to havo settled down to ilwn but now and then ho would itralghtcn up grab tho reins and attempt at-tempt to guldo the boric only to drop back Into ltla teat a moment later apparently ap-parently unconscious Jlowo overhauled them and shook I the boy lie could get no aniwir bet at any rate the boy was alive new wrapped him up anow and started for TwontyKlght Mile Spring the Btar rat place Here he gave the boy stimulant and then went on to Denton Den-ton At the hotel the ipcechlei and almost HfelnM boy was placed In a alt linn posture with till feet In n tub ot cold water Ho could eat nothing but light stimulants were forced down his throat and In that position he slept for thirtyilx hour being cccatlonally aroused for the atlmulant lie ro sneered hut It wan found necessary to amputate both his reeL A big purse woe made up for him and ho wa loot tail lo school liar Tiny Isetndes Tho study of germs baa produced nothing more Interesting than the dla rovery not only that all ol the little organism called bacteria or microbe are not Injurious In their effect upon man but that tome of them must actually he reckoned ns his friends defending de-fending him aa they do against other oth-er microbe which are unquestionably Injurious And even more Interesting than thk la I the discovery ot the HIM alan savant Metchnlkoff that Ibo ml nuts cell In human blood which physicians phy-sicians rail white corpuscles on must powerful and effective enemies to tho germs of dlseaio seeking to make their way Into the system When ex amlned with a microscope these relic present a curloiu and startling appear nnre of Independent > life and under proper condition they may bo sees to crawl ilowly nbouU Their manner of acting when they are called upon In defend Shun blood against Invasion from without Is I almost dramatic In InldirsU K n wound Is I made In the hand or armor arm-or other part 1 of the body Immediate danger arise from tho floating griM In the atmosphere which light upon Iho wounded surface stud there find n readymade breach through which th > y ran enter the system Hut the mar vellous rolls in the blood meet the ens ray on tho threshold As innn ni thn wound Is open they nock to tho place of danJrr and IIIrrnlly devour the entering enter-ing microbes Unlll the Invading hosts are rxtrnordlnnrllT numerous and powerful and are favored by untoward unto-ward circumstance the victory almost al-most Invariably remain with the do render of he breach Tb Itsntice Mr It A Proctor says that 10 far as telescope nnd physical research have yet led us In size In situation and In dntlny In the length of her seasons and her rotation In the figure of her orbit and In Iho amount at light and heat she receive from tho sun Venn bean n more striking re semblance lo She earth than any orb within the solar system Had Venue but n moon like the earth we might doubt whether In the whole universe two orb exist which are so strikingly similar to each other Indeed It Is I by no mean certain that Venus baa not n moon Montaigne Ilodklcr Hop rebon alonthaven and olhvra hivlne wn bodytwar Venue which prevented pre-vented o phaa similar to that of a planet precisely II a satellite would have done Venus has n day ot about S3 hour 21 minute and a year of 231 day 17 hours nearly Tho distance tram tho aun Is I something less than threefourths of that which separates tho nun from us It Is I clear that merely mere-ly I In the greater proximity of Venus to the sun there Is I little to render at least n large portion of her surface uninhabitable un-inhabitable by inch being aa exist on our earth In her temperate and sub Arctlc region a cllmato which wa should find well lulled to our requirement require-ment might very well exist while the polar regions might correspond to our temperate zone and bo the abode of Ibo most active and enterprising rags existing upon her surface On the whole the evidence wo hue point very strongly to Venus aa the abode of living creature not unllko the Inhabitant habitant of tho earth s A llrrrr 101111 Um Ono of the merriest of merry evening r even-ing game goe by tho name of mummies mum-mies All tho boy and girl excepting except-ing four or live loavo the room Two of those remaining net as dressers They place tho other In chair and put over thus head of each n tall newspaper cap with hole cut In through which tho eye may bo seen Cover thus dresses 01 tits mummlc with shivers so that they will not reveal the owner Now call Ih tho other boy and girl and set them to trying to llnd out who each ol Iho mummies la I hy peeping through tho eyo holes After tho party la 1 all agreed III to who to I who remove tits paper and neo how many mlitak have been mado This game li almost es much fun for grown people as It U for children task rtnlf Work flasher William Abbott write telling how to make a top that write Tint tako u pool rut tho head 07 sail sharpen It down to the bolo aa In making mak-ing tho ordinary spool spinning top Then Ink n t > nll fbnrpn It and put It through tho halo the sharepncd end forming the spinning apex of the lop Cut off tho other end leaving n handle ID gplii with and Iho top Is I completed + When spun In the usual way It will write all surts of queer deilgn and Ills aald t Hint no two persons can make tho aame kind of draw Ing |
