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Show -i- - .t-V? a Chrlnilan Selene mother, and yl'Si'l ' 'rfr'fytj n ''"nfiilly bringing up her offspring 'jALr, " w In hleh they .hould go ffcO .TSk. fy aeroT'lIng to her Chrlallan Hi lenee light.. tir fdfT'iw'y To "1 l'011" ,h" Xor1 " tf '"W i if ' 10 "l"1"1" ,or thr '"n'nl ot thoa I If ' "ot poaled In the ptaetleea of the i'trr'"-'!'i'V ft S,'ll,t, H" n tiling all are moat )) anxlou lo do I. Lo make a pra Ileal demon II .tratHnof the working, of their faith. To jL . jity Jj ban mdi a good demount! Inn In to ha JjjjP ty-sl fl mart a Intgatrp in t ie upward ay To do till. Ciivl y-SA flf ,n' .hort.lgb'1 put away their gl.rac., ihe lame J f f 1 throw away 'lr rruteh-1.. and Ihore al flirted In 11 k U any painful way demonatrale that by force of mind JjVl A over material tbej do not aiirT.T 14 j i tVjaJj It would .cem to aui.irter. that pn.aihly th Chrl.tlatu VJK ' Wl'ijJ 8ileme mother hH fallen Ironi giaie. aciordlng to her I) iJiilTT own dwtrlnea, whel ie day, the .mall lioy of the family IT.' rft having been naughtf. the determined not to apar the rod ?V JynJfS or .poll th child, and fate him what In common hou.ehold U yjr parlance I known a. a thanughly good .panklng. Hh laid him fly I orer her knee and admlnl.temljiiatlc with a atrong right arm, only 1P lo have the Utile fellow arlae.a Itlioai a aim of leara, without a algn y of repentance, merely a cheerful amlle of eatinf.ctlon upon hi. face, lie had been a very naughty boy. aad It wa. not to bring out feeling, of cheerful .Htlnfacllon that tha mother clinetlalng him. ao over her kne again he went, and again her hand Ml heavily, lint again the amall boy roae cheerfully, .Iralghtened htmaelf lift nnd threw back hla ahouldera, aa he remarked, with an air of ronaclom rectitude: "Well, I guea. I am giving a pretty rood demon.tiallun till, time." T.ey have an original way of miangliig IticnrrlKlbln boy. In Brooklya public aehoole. or at leant In one of then. They have big clanaea In the achool and where there la one amnll boy prc'H to mlechlrf he will put the entire rlana beyond the teacher'a power of control. Hut they don't enpel thoae boy, for they may be a pretty good aort of anye In their way. but they put thm Into one of the glrl'a Moma. That wanwlint hapiiened to Tony la.t year. Tony la an Kalian boy. unuaually bright and brimful of mlachlef. Tony In the room In which he belonged ulterly Imiioaalhl. l.eaeona were no trouble to him. and aa noon aa he had Rough Information atored away In hla amall cranium to la.t him over the mil elana he gave hla thoughta to other thing.: ao did the other amall buys. That w. when the teacher concluded that alio could aland It lie longer, and aent til in Into the glrl'a room In tha r.rade aliove. Did Tony mind? Not a ill. lie thought It waa altogether delightful, de-lightful, for he waa not apt to take Birthing aerlotinly. And the boy. made no remark, upon hla sudden promotion, for he waa aa quick with hla flat. a. with hla wlte. He made many roortcmi. advance, during the rinit day. of hi. nrrlval In the glrla' room, only U lie curtly .nobbed by demure little maiden.. Hut Tony wa. handsome, hi waa agreeable, and 3oon he n autfl-rlenlly autfl-rlenlly good frlemla with every little) rlrl In the room, but he had not lime to Incite them to too much mlachlef. During Ihe term he did the work of the grade he had left and the grail Into which he had been plumped ao and-denly, and-denly, waa a model echoler In whom lath leachnr and acholara delighted, and thla year he ha. been promoted In thi regular way, and haa gone up higher, figuratively rovercd with laurel.. Tlik I. one of the up todate mvlhod. of achool dikcipline. A Ilrooklyn Sunday achool teachef who la much Interested In her work haa one boy In her class who la a trill to her. Apparentl) he paya not th allghtrat attention to anything .he at vs. He la always playing with hi. handkerchief, hi. Bunder eehnol W.'Hr anything which will keep hla eye. away from the teacher, and Hunduy after Burnley, notwithstanding many remount re-mount ranees, ahe la atlll talking t the top of the boy's head. There la a certain encouragement In It. however, for the top of that head la expressive, and she can't help feeling certain that the hoy la listening, though he never lesponda to a question. She leaned certainly the other day that he wrs liaylng attention, for at la.t he apoks, and Ihen ahe almost wished he badn't. The Sunday eehnol lesson wu upon 1'hlllp and the Kihloplan In the (harlot; the teacher had explained the tnlfnlon of I'hlllp, the race and dutle of the Ethiopian, and then began t series of questions to discover how much thn hoya remembered of what they had heard: "Now boys." ahe said, "to whua wa. 1'hlllp talking?" Then for once In her experience Thomaa the Inattettiv ralaed hie head and, aa ahe gasped with surprise, answered gruffly: "The coon In the call." Philosophy may not be a feminine gift, but there la one tiny maiden who I. never content utiles, .he know, tie "cause why" of thing.. Hlie endeavors, a. a rule, to solve the amall prohleaa which come within her range of vision herself, and does not ask until she haa given up all hope of answering 111. question herself, (ireat Uncle Itoliirt waa at the amall maiden house tha other day, and the little girl niadi a discovery. Uncle It ibert la a great favorite. He la auch a dear, cheerful uncle, with a ehVIm, ald head, a long beard and a pleasant smile. Ik had been lying on the ( juch for soma time, and the amall girl had been siting near watching him, refusing to be drawn Into conversation and appaently In deep meditation. Finally she drew a deep sigh, as of great dlsapsiltitment, and had apparently given up the solution of whatever had been axmpylng her mind, for she drew near the couch, evidently prepared to ask a question. "Well, what la It, little one?" axtl d Uncle Robert. "Uncle Robert," aald the little Xrt, "how did It happen that all your hair .lipped off your head down on Is tour chin?" A Btory la told of a wife who held In her name all the hushand'e prop, erty and who made a will. He was in Invalid, and there had never been a thought but that hla wife would oulllv him. However, ahe was taken seriously seri-ously III and th property was tied up. What huahand could al auch a tlm suggest the making of a will? Nut thla one, certainly. Bui the woman chanced to have a sensible brother. "John," he said to the husband, "Is case of Kllr.ahcth's death, how would you stand financially?" "I haven't a cent that Is not In hir name," answered the husband, "and If she should die today they could put ma out of this house to night." That could not be the caao In Niw York, but even here Ihe situation might lie eufnrlently unpleasant A will waa hurriedly drawn up. In which the wife turned over to her husband aglln all ot th property she held. It 1 waa properly witnessed, and Ihen, uneuvctedly, ahe recovered. That should encourage th superstitious.-New York Times. The little son of th family Is two years old; so Is th baby girl of th colored cook, and upon special Invitation th other day the little colored baby waa brought around to call upon On little whit boy. It waa a mutual pleasure, and the small boy with masculine assurance, played the part of the elder and superior, patronizing thi Hula colored girl, whom he called baby In a way which pleased her much. Th twe children had played together for Bom time before the boy readied that there waa a different In th color of his akin and that of hit little visitor. He had takes th child's hand In hla, when, looking down upon It, he noticed for th first tlm bow dark It waa. Ha gazed at It for a minute, an expression of surprise upon his face, and, thla changing to s )k ot pleasure, he turned to the surrounding sur-rounding eldera, crying: "Chocolate!" "Why la It," queried tha girl who ii trying to solve the problem of how to dress well to the girl who thinks knows, "that you wear all your prettiest plna and brooches at the back of your dress collars and th mor ordinary onia In front? I do exactly U opposite." "I don't mind ao much that la, wltblj reason alwut what people thfrik who see me face to face," said the girl who f-sses well, "but th people who criticise me behind my back do It mora deliberately. Whatever my appearance appear-ance may he, aa I aee myself face to f' In the glass, I am resolved that no one shall aay that my mirror ha. n two aides. One can protect one's race with a smile or m gestur, but the c la at the back haa one entirely at hla mercy." Latest experiments show that the ' k of blrda Is over-estimated. Pigeons rarely ti nl over forty mile, nr uir. The record, and that lor a comparatively n' distance. Is fifty live c an hour. |