SNOWFLAKES,
I'he HMMle ones kneel in the twilight
gray,
And the teastial
3 Ps say
uiter
Wings,
W here the angels gar
things.
I'l toward heavy
wretched em
parched lips Fn
A nud
is grieved
ind 5
tle ones’
swort,
le Hu
down through the
1 a lender sm
pow iiakes f
Mabelle
A RIDZ WIT4 'RUSHY BUDD.
Ww
red adn
y we gure you's
onto a
OO ERO
Enos has to st on
I
nn we ride together. but
der 'n oa darnin’ needle”
I'in hut there ain't
=pry,
‘resi the
answe
aul stow 4
el mnider the
SFT |
Badd ol
teaming’
tien they'll
RT]
sou: otherways, yi
nay
to inn, in just goin’ to New
git my bonnit tr
“wimmer, and here U's July,
broke find
i earcied to the blacksmith 1 mish:
waited 1H August and worn m
sinter one. Men ‘roand here don’t eal
te § p
to A
mmed over
If Enos
hadn't wantad |
his harrow
sry
108¢ no time ecartin® women
an”
Is that exclaimed the sirang
animation, and addd
presently to herself, “Yes: I think that
1 felt sure there
be game adequate solution.”
for
40
$iLh sone then
may explain if, Ts
‘Rashy looked at ber companion in
sai surprise and her heal!
donbtfplly. “1 wonder if she ain't x
Jitle oul” she sollloguized. “She's o
2 dreadinl regtloss eye. I "most wis
1 hadn't took ber ln. 1 must try and
take up hor mind, fur if she's a lie
sabslanesl there's no tellin’ what she
might do”
“Lat me take the whip,” said the 1
tle woman, brefking in upon Mrs, |
tudd's musings. “1 guess | can star: |
(hat old rack-a-bones,” i
“I'fl manage him, don't you worrs,” |
returned ‘Rushy, raining soundiu: |
blows tipon Whitey's tough old flanks. i
“Reach under the harrow and get tha |
shook
sharpened stick, won't you? None
times 1 have to punish him with ic aoe
he'll bodge an neh.”
Whitey's past experience had taugl
yield,
when it wise to and
Bodd brandished the
hickory wand,
ward with a
pace
stumbil
him
Mis
Wis
well remon
he suddent
leaped for bound, and sel
nn
git in
rattling down the
the hill,
whisking a
rod in oa
IE over si
and ound sharp
country manner
“Dan't
when he
HE er
“He's a
You «
a-goin’ to
an't
pres
Dw
Fath ‘ a p
is folks wet t Foot voneh in rot
per Drew ax long as there was
a preach looked upeomnen
mean: but
vhiowedd his spit
fur in" doubled like
Knife alway
fallin’ off onto the floor and bumpin’
: He's about
there ain't
'
silt Hp
and vie small ehildren
il in the long prayer.
wist one, but no relig
here, unless you're a Spiritualist,
:
:
of
in ‘em
here's tte a meetin’ them
toek myself,
t Deacon Wiley's fast
and wanted to communlent
husband, apd that was
y Mary Smith,
dont take no
heard tha wife
rine hack
with her
enough fur me, | says t
‘As if that poor eritter would ever want
he went through
Bild shook her head meanine
poor old Whitey a sudden blow
by of relieving her
over Deacon Wiley's past misdoings
“There's a lopesome house”
marked the stranger, pointing at a for
lora, tumble-down dwelling with sunk
way
i
gles,
ed. 1 never
dreary.”
“Well. it might be, fur a man hung
inragined
to tin
the
furt torst
Hil dl, ith
ant reve
Me
i delight!
aon 1
ita.” replied
air of haparting
“He
blizzard
fone iL the might of the
Lion, i
hig and be had to ha
twa dave hefore they econld
Blatned
that's
« ugly a
ail
Joun
irorbondy
down Law!
doin’ i, fur Ni ht
Wile
Mie
hon
I deck
would hay
Zrowe
that, though
wash
ts Bolts hae
y Bip bie
i and neve
hous nicely
wis
Fy
furnished.” worn lack
doubtfulls
bhere's a Brossels and
carpet
admitted Mr
11 . 5% # »
CUriains in tix
add “1.ur
cote a bride,
parlor.’
feteh
Toe rest
truck
ark.
yard of carpet any where oxeont { hig
‘em
of
ff
looks ax if
nly
the hotles s
gol soit old that
cone out of the There's not
he keeper that locked and
hie
all
fur the
opens HH except when
panion. Lucy
winter aml made a
fever
8 com worked one
rag carpet
dinin’ room, and be went (0 the weas
ers awl got It and carried over to
] ge and swapped if fur a
call at that: They've g
i i
Canaan vi
ier
SF 3
CA ie
$
i
{
i
turn out.
man'llt hey her hands
made no
tnd
Te
The Hetenes
solved in Pvend
squares and d
ind Fireside
About a Pleasant Voice.
“My aunt was always saying to me
Don't talk so loud
shriller every day,’
to Harper's Bazar. “1 became so ner
and irritated under this
rebuke that my volee was more uneve,
and harsh amd 1 handily
dared speak at home
“Al last 1 visited my consine in 1.
ithey are noted for thelr
you knowl, and then suddenly | notice
Your YO ji
gots
"anid a contribution
Yous
nie
than ever,
SWee! voloos
milk work.”
Are the children ke their father?
inn a despoaden
“Yueer lol,” =qid Mrs, Badd. shaking
her head, “There's Susan
to be like Lurindy. Alfonso has fallin
i The girl's got
scinething ih matter with her back
and can't set np. | tell you she's a carve,
before, between a rong:
voice and a well-modulated one. an
sci myself, so to speak. to eateh ih
and theh
In a month's time, reaily., )
talked like a different girl, And wher
I cane hone my anu! sald, ‘Well, 1 aa
glad wee that at last my reprooi;
have made an impression upon yon
Clara” Bul they hadn't. you know
The only Impression she made was 1
make me unhappy amd nervous,
“1 have never forgotten the lesson
and when | want my children wo im
prove in any way 1 give them an op
0
thing before | reprove them for not fol
RACE ABOUT EXTINCT,
the South
Left
of
Bushmen
Few Survivors
They ar
* an odo
CAmpBor um
, and bolls at 165 degrees
Al t
tension
bx
115 degrees (
, with decomposition he ordin
ary temperatore is vapor
sithoient
aordinam
io sithilime
amall
the in which
It i= insoluble in waler,
tO Cuuse Jt
in
ottios
camphor
in
preserved,
and gvrates when on the surface of
tha: lUguid like true camphor, Read
camphor daurel) melts at 175 degrees
Cl and boils with decomposition at 204
degrees CI rumored that ship
ments of the artiticial substance
been made to Hamburg, from whence
erysiais it is
iw
genuine camphor.
The Flying Frog.
Invertebrate creatures able to fiy
without wings are extremely rare
Vertebrates which ean £y are, on the
other band, numerous. They may be
a.videsd into five classes: Fish, batra
chiang, repliles, birds and mammals
Amoag the batrachians the fivers
are ropresented by the Reinwardt's
rhacophorus. It 's a strange looking
frog, or rather green frog, for the feet
are immense, Spread oud, they cover
a larger area than the whole of the
rest of the body. Thanks to his para
chute-like attachment, the rhacophorus
can flit from branch to branch, and
pounce withont diffenlty on the small
itsecis which form his food. it is a
ail orange colore I underneath,
InLaek Wiriris,
with
There someting ious in wateh
ture takes
‘Hieve 4
Hioeans,
VOR in
I vooly
Hn rep
taking
ending
Fil. wWike,
fon i in Vie
Mal yan
is (jilie
fares
LEON
au he sess
at ir, awl
{ » mitlew worth
Garpetl Mi
tn LES
tg
Shot a Buzzard on Long island,
1. i. has
Inasaring
ite wh
Long
{ Hal
ie barnyard, amd
his gun and went oni
Win on
Isiand, amd eros,
lock saw the
innvedintely
: to kill it
When the bird discovered his pre<
! ence it did pot seem mneh alarmed, bo
: flow to the roof of a neighbor's hons.,
i where It awaited the young man's ap
{ proach. Hallock killed it with the
| first ghot,
| In the en the value of
| these birds as scavengers is geporaliy
recognized, and they are respected, a
| heavy penalty belng incurred by kil)
ing one of then, The result bas becca
to remder thet plentiful in that terri
tory. In the north they receive Hit
mercy. and are shot whenever epportin
nity affords. They are a loathsomnn
{ looking bird, and, ax might be exposed,
{ owing to their carrion-eating habits
| emit a disagreeable odor.
soul in slates
Rabbit Hunting With a Hoses
Men who hunt rabbits have got a
{ mew way of driving them from thel
i holes, The new mwetlnd i BB ke a
six foot fire or robber hose and worn:
ft down into the hole and to ix 8 ped
over the rabbit bole. When this is
done, the man yells into the ase as
loudly as be can. Any one whe has
ever heard a yell in a cave can imagioe
how it sounds to the rabbit,
bit leaps for safety and lands ia (he
net,