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Show FOIL UOYS ANIHURLS. SOME GOOD 8T0RIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. 4 Hear Takea I'ininilon if a llmi In a Willi I'art o lallfurnla anil 1'a-P. Clot of the Window lluw Ua Man tlla l .cai. IV i: I.ITTI K SIsTl Its, We nro little sisters five That In any climate thrive. Kverywhire nt home are w On the land on on tbe sen. W'hercane'er Is human speech There our little voices reach. Kery moment, night and morn, We are dying, we are limn. Well you know us. little man; (iuiss our nanus uow If yuu can l-'or you never speak a word 'I lint one of us Is not heard. And our gentle voices meet In each sentence you repeat. A, K, I. and O and I'. l.lltlo sinter vowels true! Woodson St. Oeorge. IIKURS A 1IKAII STOI1V. William llninlltoti lives lu a wild part of California, and has a honeybee honey-bee ranch. One day, when he was absent ab-sent hla wife went out to tho potato field to do a llttlo hoeing, sud when she came hacg to the house she found a big bear walking about tho kitchen. She didn't stand still and scream, as a woman In this part of the country would have done, hut ran to the woodpile wood-pile for the nxe. and then back to attack at-tack Mr. Ilruln. She met hliu coming out, but he darted back at sight of her. and finding himself cornered knocked the axe out of her hand with one blow of his paw. Being thus disarmed, the woman runhed out of the kitchen, slamming the door after her, and started off for help.. Meanwhile, Mrs. David, a neighbor, who lived In an opposite op-posite direction, was on her way to the Hamilton farm. When ahe reached the house she was frightened half out of her senses at seeing a bear looking look-ing out of a half open window, and she, turned and ran ail the way home, whore ahe told her sixteen-year-old son that there was big bear In the Hamilton house, and that he had undoubtedly un-doubtedly eaten up Mra. Hamilton, for that good woman was nnwhero In sight. Bo the boy picked up his gun and be started for the acene of the tragedy. Having reached the plare thoy looked all about, but no bear waa to be seen. The boy aaw that the ccl-lur ccl-lur door waa open, and concluded that the beast might have gone down there, be begnn cautiously to descend the steps. Ho had not gone very far down when he heard a snort and a growl, and saw the boar routing toward him out of the darkness. Then he didn't feel nearly so brave as he thought he waa, and dropping hla gun. he rushed up the steps Into the kitchen, and out Into the yard, shutting the kitchen door behind blm. Ill started oft la one direction and his mother In another, and presently the boy met the Ilatnlltnna and a friend of thelra who had a rifle. They approached the house cautiously, bis; aaw no algna of the bear, nor could, they find him In any of the rooms. They concluded, therefore that he bad squeoxed through the partly open window win-dow and made off. But on going outside out-side thoy happened to look up, and there was Mr. llruln'a bend poking out of tbe top of the chimney. He drew it In right away, but they soon made him scramble out by lighting a bundle of atraw on the hearth. Tbe man with the rifle was on watch, but hla shot missed, and the bear got away to tbe brush with a whole skin. Philadelphia Times. A OHKNAIUKR or tltANfeV No French soldier la more bouoraaly remembered than Latour d'Auvergne, who belonged to a regiment of grenadiers grena-diers In tbe army of tbe great Napoleon. Napol-eon. Hla defense of the pass, single-handed, single-handed, agalnat an army of Auatrlans, baa made hla name almost aa memorable memor-able aa tbat of Horatlua, the brave Roman who kept the bridge, ft waa and Latour d'Auvergne was a aUlwart young soldier of thirty years. During a arout he learned that a detachment of tbe enemy woe pushing forward with the Intention of securing a mountain moun-tain pass, to prevent an Inijiortsnt movement tbat the French army wa i then on the march to accomplish. Th Austrlans were but a few hours dl tant, and Latour had no time to aeitl , tbe main army for assistance. II -knew thas the pass waa defended l) a force of only thirty men, who wer ktatloned In an old atone mill th commanded the route through tlj mountains, and he made up his mis : to hasten on and warn tbein, and tnt part In the defense. When he reach! ' tbe mid, however, he found It deacr I ed. Tbe soldiers, having heard of t L advance of the Austrlans. had "' J leav'ng the pass unguarded. Lato understood military affairs w. ' enough to realise the Importance ,' t holding the poat, and he decided to ( j fend himself it be could. There wi plenty of arms and ammunition In t mill, and he at once sat about getrj ! ready for the expected attack of I . Austrlans. In a short time they i peared and demanded the aurrendu; ' the place. Latour refused and . struggle began. There were tlr muskets In the mill, and these he k 1 loading and discharging, giving I Austrlans the Impression that qui force waa defending it. They kep- j' a close fire on It, however, and so times attempted to carry It by si' I The sharp defense, bowever, r. j them each time to retire with 1 ' loss. Finally, when his gunpo j was neaif ; '""ed. and ho hlmsell i was worr ""1 ,? 'he protracted struggle. strug-gle. I-ato r''" A 1 "K of tnne. Instantly In-stantly tl !rl"tr,,srd, and a m m nt ! after a J"r 51 ,h" B111 a opened and a gr""''' "rowed himself. "We desire," addressing the Austrian Aus-trian co'J"n 'f- "the 'prlr'lege of evacuatlrt ""' euarters, with nil the honors r' 'r; wlh arnia and baggage, bag-gage, snlf"lor",l"" "Your 'mntut nr,, Kr.i ntcd ." replied the gslls'1 A,:r'sB, who Immediately drew up sl" ln ' Hues to receive re-ceive the d'Tirted garrison. Thi n out walked I""" d'Auvergne, alone. "Well." Auntrlan command er, "whe" '""" garrison?" "Here, ,,p. 11 ou we." nnswered the Frffn". raining his hand In salute. lint t"'ro la If" ak.l the Austrian, Aus-trian, vlih'y arreted. "He! a!" rrtsslei! tbe gr Her. "What! Yl alone llefelnlid th mill?" "I wsa l ''' alone; was the only garrison," rejoined tbe soldier with a ijtllet sin'!. "And a" isme you t0 undertnke so bold Btlampt?" "The btd'ortof France was In peril, air. I i""1'1 a no differently." an-awercd an-awercd i''"role grenadier. The M'l'j'lj Austrian bowed In atl-mlrallei atl-mlrallei I, "Tot: ifexfia bravest of the brave." he eahl. 'iU be ordered the thirty miisketi o be sent after blm to the Fronra arniy. and wrote a letter com-pllnientl'K' com-pllnientl'K' ela heroism. NaK!en effered Ijitour the command com-mand of a reilinent, hut thla ha refused, re-fused, preferring to serve In the ranks, "I cannot lesve my romredos." he said, "lid inr one of them would have done tlx a im as I." -' But ever after that he waa known aa the "First Orenadler of France." Fred Hyroo Colby In Philadelphia Times. TBom-aois INI.ANO to Ana. There are not many toada on thla OMand, probably becauau they cannot breed where there are not many pools of fresh water, and that la the war It Is here. Aholit two and a half months ago, Mr. Bradley, thinking It would be a good thing to have soma toads dnwa here, sakr-d Mr. Hart, the deputy supsrintendtnt of the Concord reformatory",-to tend ua some. Mr. Hart got fifty toads ind put them In a box about 1 feet long, m feet wide and ( Inches deep, half full of moist loam, with a wire screening stretched over the top. They came one night and were taken up to the boys' flower gar-dsns, gar-dsns, where thirty were let out. Every boy was anxious to got one for his garden. There were not enough to go around, and so Mr. Bradley let the toads choose which, boy should own tbrrn. He drew a large circle around the box and hsd the boys line up to It. He then let the toada out one by one. Aa soon as one hopped out to the circle, the boy In front of whom It waa could have It. Aa soon aa a boy got nnebe put It In hla garden. The nrt fteWrnT wnen vey were looked for only four were to be found; but It was soon discovered where they went They bury themselves In the eartt and coma out to feed or when It la going to rain. The remaining twenty twen-ty wore let lose In the flower beds on the lawns. Ijtter on another box of seventy toads came from Mr. W. O. Fsncher. superintendent of the Stan-wood Stan-wood school at Topsflld, Mass. These were put Intel the different vegetable gardens on the farm. These snlmsls were got down here because they are very useful In killing and preventing Ihe Increase of noxious Insects and vorma. tleorge O. Noren In Thompson's Thomp-son's laland Beacon, printed by the baya of the farm school In Boston harbor. TUB MVHTr.KIOl'S VOKB. It woe a warm summer night and the hour wna midnight. Tbe acene waa Madison Square Park, New York. The policemen on the four aldea of the rectangle were getting dull with sleeplnoss. Bo one of them ssld after-wsrd-the man who tells the atory. Suddenly Into the atlllneaa of the night a shrill cry projected Itself: "Help! Help! Murder! Murder!" The crp appeared to eome from within with-in tbe aquare. And slmultanrously the two policemen nearest at band rushed Into the park, the leather prongs on their night sticks In place for atrik-lng. atrik-lng. "They're killing me! Help! Help!" spurred them on. The policemen made a systematic search of the green area, ending Anally la the center. Well, where la It?" asked one. fcilve It up. I thought "twaa here," ess the reply. ''Keep away! ' Keep away! Don't eome near me!" cried the shrill Tolce. , JHIowly and warily the policemen ' grade their wsy to a bench a little to He eouth of the center, which seemed to be the spot whence the voice came, tnd there they stood for a moment, I" vmiderlng what It meant. Then from I a,, branches of the maple overhead !i wheedling voles said: 'Tolly wanta i ejracker." Tho mystery was solved. ;t wae Homebody's parrot, eecaped I !nm Its cage, which had playod this ' juko on two of New York's cleverest ' (policemen. The bird remained In the i.limrk for a day or ao, residing all ef-.'jlorta ef-.'jlorta to be raptured, and then diaap- !iared, having perbspa found Ita way ' ilawk to Ita cage. jj I Uklng. 1. 1 ''"Hike your nerve!" gasped tho beau-i' beau-i' tlful girl, struggling agaliiet the Inevl- 'table. "And I like your cheek!" j chuckled the young man as he con-l con-l Unued the osculalury exorcises. Phil-aiielphln Phil-aiielphln Record. i . |