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THE LITTLE SPARROW,
If only a tiny sparrow
ry Reg of low degree;
My life {8 of little value,
But the dear lord cares for me.
I have no barn or storehouse,
I neither sow nor reap:
God gives me a sparrow’s portion,
But never a seed to keep.
Ir my meal is sometimes scanty,
Close picking makes It sweet;
t have always enough to fised me,
And life is more than meat.
I know there are many Sparrows,
All over the world they are found:
But our heavenly Father knoweth
When one of us falls to the ground.
Though small, we ars never forgotten:
Though we are never afraid;
For we know the dear Lord keepeth
The life of the creatures he made.
weak,
I fiy to the thickest forest,
I Hght on many a spray:
I have no chart nor compass
But I never lose my way.
And 1 fold my wings at twilight, ™
Wherever 1 happen to be;
For the Father is always watching,
And no harm will come to me.
— Our Four-footed Friends.
re
Age f AED
vince
F Sunbeam
Conquered
A
Giant
By JOHN S. REMY.
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there
India the
world has ever known. Not
stronger than ten oth
ether, but there was
nothing in the world he could not do
He wandered up and down land,
commanding people to give him
and he
no matter how diffic
asked, to at once
was a harsh and
soon as he had done a
ding, he immediately carrie
son off to his great
mountains, where he
oner
1 3 % # raw
L¥eld ih a pro
most power
only
er
tasks
to perform had never falled,
ult was the thing
accomplish
giant
person's bid
d that per
palace in the
was held a pris
He
crual
At last ruler
said he would give
anyone who
something
#
QL
the ti
up hi
8 thro me to}
could ask this
fall to do All
the wise and great men of the king
dom racked thelr brains to think
some imp task, and many curi-
ous things asked of the giant
For instance, it was in the middle of
the winter seagon, when no
not even buds, were
and a great landowner came
giant, and said, “Make
he would
ossible
were
clous fruits™
ran over the trees, and buds
blossoms burst into beauty,
the branches wers bending
their load of fruit; ani off went
wealthy landowner
castie,
the
to
need.” said he, “many herbs
drugs that India does not
Get them for me at once, —
every herd that grows, in every land
in the world, or you shall drink a
drug that will put an end to your
wicked power”
“Ab! ha!" chuckled the giant. “You
are just the man I need in my castle.
There are too many alaves there.
You shall take your drugs with you,
and make a deadly drink for the lazy
ones.”
At once the physician was almost
buried beneath the herbs and drugs
that he had ordered, and he, too,
went off to the castle.
The ruler of the kingdom now
came to the giant He was a kind
and tenderdicarted man, and a wise
one also; and he thought to him-
self, “Well, this may be my last day
in my kingdom, so I'll ask the giant
something which, if he can do it, will
at least leave my people comfortable,
and bappyr after 1 am gone”
So he sald to the giant: “For
once you shall use this magic power
of yours for good, or else leave this
land forever. There are many poor,
many sick people in my country. If
you can make every one wealthy,
healthy, and happy, I shall be quite
content to go to your castle, and be
your slave forever”
The glant hated to do a kindly
deed, 80 he roared with rage, and
sald to the ruler: “For this you
shall work In the mines of my rock
bound home. You shall never again
see a ray of sunlight or know any
other pleasure in life. Solitary work
in the darkest corners of the gold
mines shall be your portion.”
“After yon have made all my sub
jocts wealthy and healthy” taunted
the brave ruler. Of course, the glant
tad to grant his wish in order to gut
him in his power. And, as the prince
was taken from his palace by the
glant, and fairly dragged along the
streets, crowds of healthy, happy peo
ple thronged the way, and cried, “We
will come for you, Your Royal
Mightiness: you shall not long re
malin in the giant's power.”
The vast army of people went to
produce
ona of
their ruler; but here a sheer wall of
rock, thousands of foot high, stopped
them, while the magic power of the
giant wafted him and his royal pris
oner right over the wall and Into
the giant's castle. The glant only
stayed long enough to set the ruler
at work in the dark mines, and then
he rushed off to the kingdom to se
cure more victims. The first person
he saw was a gentle little maiden.
She was scated before an open win.
dow, working on a wonderful piece
of embroidery, in which, among soft
hues of rainbow silk, flashed and
gleamed gorgeous jewels and bands
of gleaming gold. .
“Ah! 1 need such a worker as this |
in my castle,” thought the grim old |
giant; and he stopped before the open
window.
His great black shadow fell on the
beautiful embroidery, darkened the
radiant colors, and caused the young
girl to look up. Now she was pretty
well frightened when she saw this |
great giant before her; but she was |
both brave and quick-witted, and as |
she saw how dim her gold and jewels |
looked, now that the brilliant sunlight |
was shut .off from them, a thought |
popped right into her pretty head.
“Oh, good-morning, you big, brave
giant,” she cried. “1 was just wish.
ing for your help in this plece of em-
broidery I am doing for the royal
palace. Now that you have made us
all rich, I can buy all the gold and
jewels that | wish. But | need one
thing more. Will you get it for me?" |
“Yes, and take the embroidery and
castle”
the giant, in a tone he tried
make pleasant.
“Oh, you
mald,
few,
kind
with a merry
just a very few
dancing on the grass
weave In my work
be perfect to," —and she made a
she knew that the
never capture a sunbeam,
went on ingly, ]
“wel
ave, ruler!”
dear, giant!” said |
laugh “Ii
of those
behind
Then it}
beams,
pause, for
giant could
+40," she
come back
The
rage,
had
moe’
our br good
beside himself with
maid
sked the one impossible thing
life
giant was
for he knew that th
1
f little
puni ! wicked
& udde nl had not
awe At one and
arted
came 80
aven timo ans
the sa trans:
to an
from
while t ]
i's of his kingdom
a't the pris
back to their hom
and happi
the ity, a
him
to the grosnd, and
oners ther
to find there wealth
As ralor
great met him
to the pretty
- Your Malesty
saved your
Os
ness
the
entered
3
crowd and took
embrold
Here,
has
The
od crown from
on the
girl, saying, “I
they
took his
head, and
the young
Queen of
royal ruler
his
head of
thee,
Jewell
placed it
root
“No, Your
maid “l should feel but
F had driven the giant from your k
force you
Majesty,” the
sorrow {f
ing
your
MEW Orel
Angwereo
to
“Then share my throne with me™
who had fallen in
and pretty
with
love
man
wis
king
her sweet face
ners. “Come help me your
dom.”
This the little embroiderer consent.
el to do; and the wonderful em.
broidery, in which not only sunbeams,
but moonbeams, and all tints of
sunset and sunrise, seemed to flash
and mingle in rare beauty, became
wedding gown of the fairest and
queen had
in that land Christian
the
wisest that
known
boon
Reg
over
MOTHER BEES, ‘NOT QUEENS.
A Bee Master Says the Queen Is the
One Real Subject.
“There are no queens, properly
called, In bee life,” said the
ter of Pleasantville, N. JL.
are hundreds of hives in my
and there isn't a in
them
“If you keep a fairly close watch on
the progress of any particular hive
it is very casy to see how the old
false idea got into general use. At
first glance a hee colony looks very
much like a kingdom, and the single
large bee that all the others pay
court to and attend so carefully
seems very like a queen
“The mother bee seems, on the
face of it, a miracle of intelligence
and foresight. While as far as you
know all other creatures in the world
bring forth their young of both sexes |
haphazard, this can lay male or fe
male eggs apparently at will. You
watch her going from comb to comb,
and the eggs she drops in the small
cells hatch out females and those
she puts in the larger cells are al
ways males or drones.
“More than that, she scems always |
to know the exact condition of the
hive and to be able to limit her
egg Iaying according to its need or |
otherwise of population; for either
you see her filling only a few cells
each day in a little patch of comb
that ean he covered with the palm
of your hand or she goes to work on
a gigantic scale and in twentyJour
hours produces eggs that weigh more
than twice as much as her whole
body.
“Then,” he goes on in Van Nor
den's Magazine, “to cap all, as the
honey season draws on to its height
you are forced to think that the
queen has conceived and is carrying
through a scheme for the good of her
subjects that would do credit to the
wisest ruler ever born in human pur
ple,
“Every day of summer Sunahine
80
bee mas.
“There
garden,
any of
queen of
has brought thousands of young bees
into life.
crowded. Sooner or later one of two |
things must happen-—either the in- |
or a great party must be formed to
leave the old home and go out to es
tablish another,
“Then it is that the mother oe |
secoms to prove beyond a doubt her
wisdom and gueenliness, She decides
for the emigration, but as a leader
must be found for the party and none
lead it hersell.
“A new ruler for the old realm
must be provided to take her place
when she has gone forever, and now
you see a party of bees set to work
on something that fairly beggars
your curiosity.
“At first It looks exactly like an
acorn cup in wax hanging from the
under edge of the comb. Perhaps the
next time you look the cup has grown
see it is half full
white jelly.
“The next time, maybe, you open
the hive the acord has been added to
the cup, the queen cell is sealed over
and finished, and about a week later
full grown queen
twice the size of the ordinary
worker and quite different in shape
and often different in color.
“It the mother really
all this about queen would
good enough name for her,
truth is throughout all the womder
workings of the hive the queen $8
little more than an instrument, =
kind of an automaton, "merely doing
what the workers her to do.
“They are the real queens in the
hive and the mother the one
and only subject The birth
queen is simply a of
the eggs are laid
“Thousands and thousands
worker eggs lald in a hi
ing the geason, and
could made into a q
the
of a glistening
hoe brought
not be
but the
compel
bee is
of a
question where
of
are ve dur
each of those
be ueen if the
workers chose: but worker
gmall the
bare
ald In a
is bred on a
at the least
trouble and space
when a new queen
as big as vour fir
the :
through all
until,
its five d
with unlimits
nd roe
nn
last a perfe
Typewritten News.
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has had sued in Stockholn
because of the gon
the place of
to be
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good writing
space left. that
COrres|
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@ to imitate writing,
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will be done upon
blank
an may
siness. It
the best of the
donble the
with abundanoe
ease and pleasure, and
to improve the younger sort
in writing a curious band” Dawks
proudly held in after years that he
thus enabled is readers to know
‘the Occurrences of Das, and
the Heads of the Forelgn Malls, which
come in many times after the Pub
lication of the Printed Papers, so
that they may have the chiefest news
stirring.”
paper, and
Any gentle
doen
btedly
writton
quant! ity,
nore
oxceod
paws, contains
fs read
will be
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the
The Expense of Being Careless.
A prominent business man, accord
to Orison Sweet Marden, in
Success Magazine, says that the care
lessneas, inaccuracy, and blundering
of employees cost Chicago one mill
fon dollars a day. The manager of
a large Chicago house says that he
has to station pickets here and there
through the establishment In order to
neutralize the evils of inaccuracies
and the blundering habit. Blunders
and inaccuracies cost a New York
concern twentydive thousand dollars
2 year
Many an
shocked at
loyer a
employee who would be
the thought of telling his
le with his lips ia Iyinz
every day In the quality of his work,
in hiz dishonest service, In the rot
hours he is slipping into it, In
shirking. In his indifference to his
employer's interests It is just as
dishonest to express it with the lips,
sot T have known office boys, who
cotild not’ be induced to tell thelr
employer a direct lle, to steal
time when on an errand to hide
away during working hours to smoke
a cigarette or take a nap, mot real
amt
ten
as well as told, and that acting a lle
may be even worse than telling one
S—— i —
Germany's Squadron,
The squadron which
tion consisted of Germany's
armored cruiser, the 11.600ton 22.5
knot “Gnelsenau”; the protected
ruisers “Hertha” and “Victoria
ouige” of 5,660 tons and 19 knots
speed; the “Bremen” 3.260 tons and
23.3 knots, and the “Dresden,” one of
the now 3.600-ton fast scouts of which
Germany ia building so many, of 24.5
knots spood.—Sclentific American.
a Sa w————
New Yorkers drink tea as well us
other things, and it is estimated that
one pound of the herb is consumed
by each inhabitant yearly.
Hollow Horn Doar, chief of all the
Sioux, is the first living smn to have
| his portra’t on the national curremay.
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports.
W———————
R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
of Trade says:
“Renewed buying of rolling stock
by the railroads is the conspicuous
and steel trade. Reports indicate
heavy purchases of pig
One
contract for 20,000 tons of Bessemer
at $19 is reported. The structural
shops are receiving a moderate
amount of new business.
“Trade in dry goods shows steady
gains and the higher prices in the
primary markets, forced by the sus-
tained high cost of raw material, are
now quite freely paid Trading In
white cloths continues active and
fully on a level with the
cotton market. Export trade is lim
Bradstreet's says:
“Improvement is the order of the
day in trade, collections and indus-
try. Colder weather, freezing tem
perature, light snows or killing
frosts, coupled with freer crop move-
ment, have helped retail trade and
collections at the West and North-
west, while lower temperatures and
high prices and free marketing
cotton have helped distribution
the South. Jobbing trade has
coincidently benefited by reordering
to fill broken stocks, and the dis-
tributive trade side accordingly pre-
sents a very favorable appearance.”
Wholesale Markets.
New York.—Wheat ng,
No, 2 red, 127 %e. elevator:
No, 2 red nominal f. 0. b
No. 1 Northern Duluth, 1.15
nal f. o afloat; No. 2 hard
23% nominal b. afioat
Corn—8pot firm: No. 2, 69
vator dome
No. 2, 691%
2 yellow, 703
market without
3c. net higher,
E8%e
Oats Spot;
42% @ 43
Ibe., 43
of
at
been
spot
asked
strong:
af % =
afloat;
: t
4 nomi
s nomi-
ot
winter,
“le.
boltvay =
gelvered,
_ ’
SOW York:
nominal,
tras actions,
December
a"
ono
Option
Philadelphia.‘ he
highe I: contract gre
dy 118¢
Corn-—Quiet but s
low for local trade,
Oats Firm BC
2 white nat ural,
Lduiet
n Creamery
prints, 34.
Eggs Steady; good
Pennsylvania and other nearby
f. ¢., 27¢. at mark: do
ceipts, In returnable
mark; Western firsts
mark; current
23@ 26 at
Cheese
New York
do., falr to good,
Live Poultry
fowls, 14@ 15¢
@11; spring
ducks, old,
a 14.
Dressed
killed fowls,
to good, 15% @ 16;
broiling chickens,
do., Western, 15@ 18;
22@ 24.
Baltimore, — Wheat Small
lots, by sample, brought from §
<0¢. per bush A cargo of 1.(
bush. of No. 3 red sold at 1.18
The market for Western
easier. Spot, 118%e¢ October,
1.11%; December, 1.10%. A firm
er tone was noticed at the mid-day
call. Spot, 118% c.; October, 1.13;
December, 1.11%,
Corn-—Contract opened
year, 629 62%ec.; January,
61%; February, 61%. Mid«day call
found prices firmer Spot, 67¢
year, 625% @62%; January, 62% @
62%; February, 62%. The cloting
was strong. Year, 62% G63 %¢
January, 62% @62%. February,
62%. Sales, 5,000 bush, year, 62¢
car yellow (domestic), in
68; two cars yellow (domestic),
68%; car spot (export), 67
Oats——Cholce No. 3 white,
in elevator, 44c.; car No
medium, in elevator, 42;
No. 3 white, medium, in
43%.
Hay--We quote, per ton:
timothy, large bales, $17.50;
small blocks, $17.5¢: No.
as to location, $18.50G 17;
timothy, $14.50@ 15.50;
ver mixed, $17@ 17.50; No.
mixed, $16.50@ 17; No. 2
mixed, $14.50@ 15.506
Butter We quote, per 1b:
utter
currel
CABes,
do..
mark.
Firm;
P15%.
Quist but steady
old roosters. 1034
chickens, P 14%;
12@ 13; do., spring, 13
42
is
Poultry
choice,
Steady;
16%¢c.;
old roosters, 1
nearby, 164 20
» Jers ¥.
a «
do
bag
to
050
a
‘
opened
easier;
61% @
»
*
3 white
car choice
elevator,
No. 1
do.,
creamery choice,
29030; creamery good, 27@ 28;
creamery imitation, 22@ 25; cream
ery prints, 31@ 35; creamery blocks,
29@32.
Eggs-—-We quote, per dozen, loss
off; Maryland, Pennsylvania and
nearby firsts, 26c.; Eastern Shove,
Maryland and Virginia, 26; Western
firsts, 26; West Virginia, 26; South-
ern (North Carolina), 25; guinea,
13.
Live Poultry-—Quote: Chickens
O14 hens, heavy, per 1b, 14c.; young,
do., 14% @ 156; light, 13%. Ducks
Old, per 1b, 12¢.; white Pekings,
old, 13; spring. 3 lbs. and over,
18¢.; do., small, do, 11 @ 12. Geese
—Western and Southern, per 1b. 11
@ 12¢.; Maryland and Virginia, do,
12; Kent Island, do., 13@ 14.
Live Stock.
, wee Cattle — Market slow
and dull. Steers, $5.00 @ 8.90; cows,
$3.50@ 6.25; heifers, $23.50G6;
hulls, $304. 26; calves, $3@ 9.75;
stockers and feeders, $3.76 @ 5.50.
Hogs Market steady. Cholcs
heavy, $7.70@ 7.80; Chem. $7.70
7.80; light mixed, $7.15@ 7.35;
choloe light, $7.606 7.60; heavy,
$7. 4507. bes oT $5@7; bulk of
sales, $7.40
Shee oi steady. Sheep,
405.40 lambs, $607. 35; year
MISLED BY THE LIGHT.
The mullet that figure in the fol-
lowing story from Outing eventually
went the way of all fish, but the ac-
count of thelr passage from their na-
tive element to the frying-pan is
lar features.
How would you like to eatch fish
“Shoot them, you mean”
“No.”
“iow, thent™
*.ot them jump into the boat ®
*Oh, that's preposterous!™
For reply, the first speaker, a Vir.
passing negro and asked him if the
were running.
“Reasonabul, euh,
“Dey hez been bet-
ter, en dey hez been wuss.”
“Be ready to take us to shore after
supper,” the Virginian said to the
NUETO,
“Wait until nightfall.”
~gonditions pronounced “ideal” for
the sport. Within an hour they were
on the soft,
the inlets on the
There was the
Chesapeake
fishing-boat, a long
eanoe or dugout, At the stern was @
platform, on which was a basin half.
full of earth. Behind the stern seat
was a pile of wood knots. The ne
groes had long poles
*Now,” sald the Vir
visitor, “all we ask of
as still as you can!"
In a few minutes noe
shoved gently through the water,
this time a bonfire
on the soil the
fiames got hold on the resin of the
pine knots, the glare lighted the
big trees that lined the s
“They're jumpin’!”
the bow,
ginian to his
you is to keep
the ea was
By
had been started
in basin, and as the
up
hore,
the
very hoarse
announced
negro in in a
whisper,
The negro in the stern gave a
vigorous ghove with the
Tom)
fore a could say “Jack
more
and be.
Robin.
the fish
over the
pole,
nybody a) JACK
{ piump!
the boat,
nn up sleeves!
, but
smallest
for when
at the end
t of the
were
of them
the
the
hun.
anu
was
Three
for the
mullet hich abound in these
And h i858 no my
the ease with
small
walers
about
stery
they are
caught. On the flood-tides after dark
they the shallows in the
streaas for food They have great
leaping abilits when surprised
make for dee by oars and
bounds, The glare from a boat
starties them. The body of the boat
being dark, they do not ree {t, and
when they jump into it they think
they are going through space into
deep walter,
which
get into
and
water
Tooting.
i airing old lady, according to
he Sacred Heart Review, enlivened a
] fourney “down-east” by ask-
an oblizing brakeman a good
many questions
jong does the train stop
she ssked, as the train drew
in at a cer
here?”
station
Four minutes. From
two io two to two two,” replied the
bralen
And he smiled as he passed along,
the expresgion of the
as she vainly tried to
Er
aiid
, Stop here?
an
bering
old lady's face
repeat "two
whistling.
oul
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