“Bonnets o' Blue.” Just five years old, This tale is true In all respects of Bonnets o' Blue— A dear little maid: Not just for rhyme, Am I writing this. (“Am I keeping time, lockstep, too, like a true,”) “Beautiful eyes of sweetest hue.” And soldier She played around when the day was fair, All alone with no playmate there, "Twas the time of battles and sword and hum-— Of bugle note, . ("Am I with the drum, And lock-step square like a soldier rare.”) “Beautiful eyes and sweetest halr.” "Twas in time of battles and she knew no more-— the battle man's lore, marched with and gait— Of knightly grace, (“Am I marching lock-step when non's roar") er child with her soldier lore.” Than song and the war She straight, With the can- lore, Soldi bird for When the spring Not just writing this, (“Am I ot 2a Step, sang, rhyme Am | time like keep And le a soldier 100, Beautiful “Tears eves of sweetest hue, angels and Bonnets of and Blue!" Wm 1strated Magazine. —s ' Page Carter in American so PSPS 252525e5e525e5e525252545e5e5 Two Fingers for His Life, 5a525258h che e525e5e5e5e5dse janes CTATLTAY BY JOHN K. COTTON. 1 Pugese ing lon’t know down here We'd iH Hendry he was a ng But warmly seconde th aptain’s the story on the hard began We loft t} har r hers this last year for Flemish Cap Bank nealed a little u man not much given to talk wh the ther visitors re quest, We ¥ . enches, 11 ii time We gray were after trip of codfish and halibut “Our skips what we w sr han} On that trip he tation, and offshore Cape Flemish Cap in t we me! “We got some fifty thousand weight | of filsh-—-'snatchel Y in winter And when 8d an able for home. It was under way The had shaken up a good hu! bly sea “Our crew was a night used the cabin, dle, and skipper Sarge Boh hlin w a to his vessel straight Ann lights he face of everything As ers call driver lived up the repu drove from for a8 wa the glass sh norther rising, head wind already good one Every aft in fid- | The al in lay we to got together headed by the cook's sing till WAS one we grew sleep of the kind that stood a watch on the runs and out. That night he had the from nine to eleven o'clock “Twas black couldn't the wheel. Sitting down tack to get in the of the of the | cold wind, the skipper would poke his | head into the companionway every | now and then, and roar out, ‘Pumb! | Pumb! Pumb! Pumb!' at every rest in our songs Hia big velce would | start a laugh among us below every | time | "We had got Ways 80 thick r-poles from and vou | see ghoe the | on lea honse, out round to ‘The Ialand Balle,” a down-home song every one of us knew We had finished the! first part when in roared the skipper, | ‘Pumb! Pumb! Pam. Only three | times he shouted, then he stopped short. “All hands seamed to be waiting for the fourth one before we started off on the second part of the song. Then suddenly the skipper cried in a differ ent voice altogether “Jump, men! Jump quick?’ “1 was never so surprised in all my life. Our skipper was not the man to folx up a joke and a serious mat ter. I saw the companionway full of men struggling to get up on deck. A erash came on our starboard quar ter. In pushed planks and timbers almost on top of me. | was the last man up. “'A pteamer,’ thought 1. But when 1 raised my head up above deck and enught sight of the big square salls of a hark towering above us in the darkness, | was mere surprised than ever. Every man that sat In that cabin knew that our vessel's side was stove in for a space great enough te sink her In a very few minutes. The thoughts of cold, ley water and a rough sea flashed on my mind. “1 heard a foreign volce yelling out away up above us on the bow of the bark. I couldn't understand a word he said. He was terribly excited. "“‘Heave over the port dories!” our skipper shouted I started forward along the port side after the rest of the hands. “Our vessel lurched ahead on a sea Then on came the bark, crashing Into us again. tear apart under our feet, out one of our fellows I could see getting the dorles they were confused. “'Hendry, you get a line aboard of her quick, if you !' cried the skip- can! per to me. 1 started back aft the cabin to overboard house got to inisn to had {ing the other side, f plece {ing where the into us, gram the end of of rope 1 could get hold of on and cut any our clim! bark's nd | knew ti frawing our own in "Twas hard apart gheot to decide sho nd The ur deck fect against my st I an heavy to the my it with gth Ba second all ren x4 in the next of the two ves I seemed unable and hard rall, my from stay, my | water I with all "The chain bid up taut My lipped on the icy knees wabbled, Then off | s our the bark's along in the our crew foot a deck afer trailing to font roared out my might Ba “The sheet was still wrapped I started to push through main round my left hand the end of it of in the chain sonner frayed one take a turn pushed end irew taut, get a 1 ii hand, to vd no the nk than th that | couldn't k a firm grip on it is : 8 rope with my at to lose altogether ‘1 heard voice above | me the bark's bowsprit keeping up join. in low thé excl a continu Then another ed him larkness ered any rope nothing “1 began all round it me had could the foo they to but soo me, them to down when | away drew with a | lurch, the rope and chain grew hard and tight, and | raised up out | of the water, 1 there in the alr. clutching the in one hand and the stay in the other “While 1 hung hroke out above me on the bark, and sung ont: ‘You French? to call out to the two come on bohstary. the vessels Was hung rone there inother voice speak English? Speak Speak German, or what you gpeak? And | knew right away that the strong, calm voice belonged to the captain of the bark ““Throw me a rope, quick!’ I called Then my arms drew out straight. 1 bounced up and down between the tightening chain and rope as If 1 was on a throbbing clockspring. A sharp twinge shot across my back from | shoulder to shoulder, a burning sen. | sation ran the length of my arms; then a numb, prickling feeling came over them. Dewn | dropped into the | water. 1 had lost both my holds! “The first plunge Inte the frosty water Is hard. It struck me all over like a stinging slap. | came to the surface right away-in fact, 1 fell fiat and didn’t go under far. “Then | began to swim. 1 roared once, then again. Then with a jolt my nose bumped hard against some thing. ‘Twas all back. 1 put up my hands and could feel the big, cold planks and seams of a vessel. 'Twas not ours: I could tell by the wide planks and the rough seams. ‘It's the bark,’ thought I ‘She's cleared our vesgel and is sailing off’ “Oh, aboard cap'n!’ I sang out. “But with every word the slide the big vessel seemed to slip along by me faster and faster, My fingers, tralling along her side, clutched at every little rough spot, every paint blister, in the butts where her planks came together, but nothing gave to the digs I made. “She was leaving I felt that my chance was gone I began to wonder where the rest of our crew were, and if our vessel had gone down “1 roared Let the bark! Oh-ho, me behind fast. out £0 a again with all my boat or something, quick!’ "American came aft here? voice. ‘You where you are?” Throw But ship She and man, you the captain's there? Or Right you something, quick!’ 1 cried DACK balow here! me with f the 8iip sm - courage #0 cap mid turn to hig eddy negan ind ten against my | pressoad them hard ry in hard my the hel it's squeezing By instinct I toward and teeth, | little crack as my hand back shulting my o3 irced it mea aen on f ack the far as [I could “A te {hin ed fingers and post turned slowly ad in 3 1A » sid v EG ID numb rudder It swung the up my big gurely py * AAS & 1 W ast ! they reached me down and bark’s it fifa irom over stern - ta . * is spoiled my ut | hand, saved mly one of that crew.” th's Companion the The Toyland of the World. of an Amer interest Japan is the really think that must have a branch es in Tokio. There are me tove that go about as if they tin turtles walking ind on the earthen floor, mice scampering counters and around on gor- i and dragon flies buzzing around in the alr There are no toy-carriages in Japan, because in Japan no real But there are finriki- are little two-wheeled little un- hata there are kind men bamboo and in to sit, their are forced getting A Tokio correspondent much of LOYS has to Japanese toyland I weekly of ican say original tablishment chanical alive aro under the ' colored huge butterflies shelves, Reon per thor dere are carriages toy which carts pulled by brown men great big mushroom-shaped instead of And CARON, the grown Carry. poles, which Aer hy horses which are cradles ie oddest of up that two long shoulders, suspended om upon their grown-up riled up Turk-fashion, feet go to sleep and they jemand the privilege and walking These are the carriages’ of Japan, and, as toys, would probably puzzle the average lit. ti or girl at home.’ folks have eu until to of dow n a hoy Scientific Fighting. What {8 needed in military a industrial warfare is science, said Lord Roberts at a meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce Great Britain could not be successful against an enemy of anything like equal strength, because she has falled to appreciate the value of modern science In warfare. “Less attention should be pald” he said, “to such trivial matters as the shapes of headdresses or the cuts of jackets, and more given to the science as well recent been successful because of thelr selentific spirit, and it was becoming plainer every day that intellectyal offi. clency is a truer safeguard of a naa tion than physical strength. Reporte from China indicate that there 1s a revive! of the demand in Bugland and the United States for WHY GIRLS SHOULD KEEP CRETS. A woman can't keep a secret. At least that's what the men say. Per sonally, 1 think women are quite as good, if not better, than men at keep: ing secreis. There is just one ing able to keep a secret, that you can't have the telling it However, that is a pleasure that we BE- in be- is of drawback and that pleasure can very well diepense with Babbled like home to friend's confidence you are sure gret it, If you BOOTALS, CUTrsSOw, roost, and vou hetray a ore to it wen . Some girls adapted ome ent the variety in form makes hem pose bh are reading amps, and and ghts and giobes for most nvar covered not esign. aré the Damascus OUTFITS. for und yhing ghould be and the t quality, but plain A girl with all the novelty of college ife upon will have little time mend, and her underclothing should new, and strong enough to resist Ry aundry treatment It be plain, as in most college laundries | an extra charge iz made for elaborate | pieces. “I never shall forget” said] one girl recintiy, “my experience with some ruffled white skirts, They o 1 her 10 be ver should | thing 1 had ever worn before, that 1 was filled with indignation when they were subjected to an ‘extra’ charge at the laundry. and remonstrated and finally refused to pay. A day or two afterwards 1 was sent for to go to the president's office. Imagine my feelings when, on entering 1 found that severe and rev. erond gentleman engaged in contem plating my unlucky petticoats! Need. jess to add 1 agreed at once that they were olaborate, and sent home for some others. '-—-Harper's Dasar, STILL POPULAR. i of each regular | papers announcing the separate shirtwalst and blouse, and the new season finds it and little decessorms The of this season's enough to The close ly finds the death of the Beason as regu fully as strong as changed from its very first larly out ever pre BOOWIDES separate walsle are convince the shopper In up by ma ant that a day of of chines fine finish is here place the lingrie affairs made of mediocre lawns bear on fs fi of are wWitence work Expensive U mbrella. “"Fawer 3 WRONS MAY Carrs las forme T Bal Raltimore, 4 thes now than l.ucas carrying more expensive 1.ucas Ones umbrell the weols take ivory which is brought direct two f long shed over, this feature sometimes month. Then monds or some other orders today for L200 “1 will concede, is cutting umbrellas we an from : in In«dis may be ot its state, and it is pol and worked 1 with dia fowe)l I took fa $3584 18 8LAUGGHE it umbrellas costing the number - went ® however, that down the used "- rain-cont of men's Toe Much Like Man Munting. A traveller writing from South Af rica describes a baboon hunt as fol lows Very slowly we spread out round about the of the kopje and began a crawling ascent through the thick scrub Davlight found us drawing near the higher spurs of the kopje and the Kaffire were busy beat. ing. Then the sport began, and pret. ty uncanny it was. My first kill gave me a most uncomfortable thrill It was horribly lke picking off a man The baboons were great big, human. looking brutes, quite capable of pick hase ning off with it. (As a fact, they gen orally content themselves with rip ping the breast open to get at the curdled milk within) But their cries were the most horribly human thing about them, and the gestures , of thelr waving arms, “When we all mot a careful count was made Thirty baboons had been bagged. Seven had fallen to my gun."—Chicago News, : (Ss CLEANING LEATHER The following to be very good for cleaning Dip a mill this rubbl direction ishing leather, cloth the until wipe dry of flannel plece of Lie in bolling hot leather with the with a which is all dirt removed any # é “ v pOIt TIANDS i Di spread a tiny prepared wax Tue wax should ! tainly as possible ing, go over } soft flannel, too hard. A Teocx Pu: small over Aft spread the leather r rubbing ori ine bowl back of the were roasted fn which tl e stock icke putt stock bod strain ail the a flannel c¢ use as ir i you n¢ but not, tine should you wish add some! on; Bi 4 ato and strain add a rOUD. jeilied It strips of brown uit, or lemon juice, ful in changing the Bazar. l.a Favorite sugar, one cup of milk, two eggs eups of flour, two scant x aspoonfule of orange juice. Put a layer of sliced pineapple In the bottom of a pudding teh and cover with a layer of the mixture Next add a layer of sliced apples and another layer of the mix. ture, and so on, using any desired fruit, having the last layer of the mix. ture. Serve with a rich cream sauce. Chocolate Mousse—Baofl one and one-fourth cups of granulated sugar until it threads then pour it slowly over the wellbeaten whites of tem eggs, beating constantly. When pee fectly smooth and white put into & double bolder, scald, thea remove from the fire. When it becomes cold, stir into it two bars of melted choco Inte and a pint of whipped cream. Turn into the freezer, pack and let it stand for four hours. or sherry use % : oe 4 flavor.—Harpers oft twa Pudding-—One cup The empire of Japan comprises nearly one hundred main and nearly five huadied adjacent small islands, |
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