_
SRL
CLIMING.
B | stand at the bottom and upward T gaze;
Fhe fruit that I see AGRE think
would be sweet.
I mean to have some of it one of these
days;
The climbing, however, must be quite a
eat.
The footholds are
Cupe—-
Some ladder rungs rotten I plainly can
see,
That 1's worth. all the risk I'm not per-
fectly sure,
But I'd like to get up to the top of the
tree.
To get to the top. I must. make up my
min
§ To care nothing for rubs, and my hangs
I must soil;
I must tread on the heads of those strug-
gling behind,
As I'm nol on by those who above me
still
It is not a ii thing, just between me and
you,
As 1 look from the ground it seems cruel
to me,
But, of course, I'll be given a much broad-
view
Ww hey once I look down from the tap
of the tree.
&
Some climb pretty swiftly and others are
Si,
But few of the climbers are stopping to
rest,
All breathless and struggling still upward
they zo
To w hore, high above, is the fruit of the
bes
And the ones who climb hardest are those
at the top,
Which is really as strange as a thing
may well he.
There is not the least chance tha 16 they
ever v Sion:
For there's not any top to this wonder-
ful tree,
—Chicago Daily News.
THE BLUE
PARASOL’S STORY
MNCL YY first public appearance
o ¥ was at a “fire sale.”
Q M ‘© A pretty blue-eyed young
A » lady paid seventy-five
PION” cents, and took me to a
modest . little flat, where
. she lived with her mother.
She’d been my owner about three
months when I heard her tell her
mother one evening that the firm she
worked for was going to give her a
vacation of two weeks.
“Where do you think you'll go, Myr-
tle?” asked her mother.
“I think I'll 20 up to see Uncle Joe,
mother,” she said. “You know when
Cousin Sue was here last winter she
said I must come up if I could get
away for a week.”:
And so two days later I found myself
ou the cars avith Myrtle, and a few
Lours’ ride brought us to a little coun-
try station, where we were met by a
rosy-cheeked, black-eyed girl, whom
Myrtle called “Cousin Sue,” and who
izissed her most rapturously.
“You are looking pale, Myrtle,” =aid
Sue after the first girlish greetin
were over. “But we'll get those roses
back again. And say! I've got a
ovely beau for you. Two gentlemen
are staying at our house. One is a
newspaper man—and he’s a ecrank—
mart encugh, but always saying sar-
castic thing But the other one is just
too sweet for anything, and 1 know
“ you'll like him. Come on, here's the
buggy,” and so, chattering like a mag-
pie, Sue led the way to where the
pony was hitched. and we drove io
her home on the outskirts of the little
town, a great Big white farm home
with shade trees all around.
That afternoon
cléifed np some ‘just at du
Myrtle decided that she wonid
down to the store two blocks away,
and get some writing paper. It still
looked showery, and-she took me with
her, telling Sue, who was doing un her
supper dishes, that sha dhe right hack,
and thep they'd have a good long 121k,
She got her paper and bad started bac
Lo
patte ring down.
S
and
run
» when a few drops of rain came
Y heard her «: as usual,
opened me, and i then came
gust of wind and she dropped
me down
smashed my vibs in.
Myrtle raised me in a hurry to see
what she had run into, and her eyes | S
met these of a young man. who had a
ndkerchief up to his face where
he said an and then :
sight of the .girefiyv face
cover his whole manner ch
“I beg your pardon.” he
¥yOou.s
2] hong tht you'd PU any at
i,” he answered. it's
ht and nothi iid | t
not see "who I ‘was: 1
1 fpoké. Thousht I had’ collided + with
one of those country javs who neve r
best inse-
acquaintance with John Gilson. He
wasn’t what you could call handsome,
even after he got the bandage off his
eyes. I didn't like him, for he was
always making sarcastic remarks
about me. He and Myrtle were always
arguing about something. In fact, he
seemed to take a delight in differing
with her on every subject. My little
mistress was a very sweet-tempered
little girl, but I knew she used to get
put out with him sometimes. Mr. Wil-
bur was just the opposite. He was
handsome and very gallant, and he de-
ferred to Myrtle in everything.
must inherit the intuitiveness of the
sex. of our owners. I could see be-
fore the week had passed that Doth
men were in love with Myrtle, and I
felt sure that I knew what her, an-
swer would be should both declare
themselves before she left for home.
And T hoped I'd be there to hear her
say “No” to John Gilson to pay him
for all the mean things he'd said about
me.
—and ‘it was soon afternoon of the
memorable Friday. Myrtle was to
leave the mext evening, and Mr. Wil-
bur managed to get her cut in the
orchard and made the declaration I
had been expecting. hut did not cet
get.
have one more boat ride hefore Myrtle
left. So all four took the boat and
rowed up the river for a long ways,
and then went on shore. Sue and My.
Wilbur strolled away together, leav-
ing John Gilson and Myrile alone.
She had sat down on an old log, and
he sat on the ground at her feet.
gether,’
wonder if you will look back to it with
as pleasant memories as I will?’
tion,” said Myrtle, “and I want to
thank you, Mr. Gilson, for having
made it as pleasant as you have.”
“Why, T haven't done anything, I am
SoITy 10 say. IT only ~wishi'I had.
Come to think it over, I think I've
been mighty mean most of the time.”
his arm rest on the log on which she:
sat. He had {aken off his straw hat,
and as he sat there with his negligee
shirt open at the neck, his sleeves
rolled up. and the breeze blowing
through his silky dark hair, John Gil-
son locked handsomer than I'd ever
seen him before.
differ with you on every subject,” he
continued.
paid you a complement when I did
so? When I first met you—well, I will
be honest—I thought you were too
pretty to have much common sense.
Now, don’t get angry,”
up rather indignantly. “Wait iil ¥
get through. It did not take me long
to find out that you were not that
sort of a girl, and when I ‘found that
out, I—-well—began to love you.”
“You—have—a queer way—of show-
it*began to rain. It]ing—it.
I used to make fun of my poor little
cheap parasol.”
nervous as she spoke, and kept punch-
ing holes. in the sand with*me and her
eves turned away from him all the
time,
“1 felt jezlous—even of the litfle
sunshade,” he ‘answered. “It could
protéct you from the sun and rain, and
You remember it almost blin
“Luckily T brought my umbrella.” once. ] +4
r 1s she | was yours. Myrtle, dear, tell me, can't
y hard | you ‘try to’love me?” 5
- She trembled and her eves fell. Then.
in front of her as she scurried along. | she traced something with ie .in the
Then came a eollision that almost | sand, and, * following her mevement,
John Gilson saw the one word:
*Yes.”—Charles, .1}.. Baiwell, in: the
t. Louis Star.
The latest report of the Canadian
Geological Survey contains interestir
tails about the great landslide at
Turtle * Mountain in the Canadian
Rockies last year. : The ey fie
slide is. 1.03 square miles, ‘thé thick-
“I beg voups?” ‘Said Myride. “Did I | ness averaged forty-five feet,’ and “the
r weight of the mass is estimated at
50,796 tons. end I maa
This rock slide canie down the moun-
rn, rushed ACross the Iowland, and,
a
dook where they
Fou will pardon me?
But Myrtle had Slipped past him
while he was talking, and r an 1]
reached the gate and into the house.
"She slept late the ne xt morning and
the sun was shining bri 1 h
arose. She heard Sue's voice 1
front porch and stepped out. A
tle came out the deor Sué turned
where she was talking with two
tlemen, one of whom was standing
talking to her, the other Sitting 1
big willow rocker in such a way tha te
“Mr. Wilbur,
little city cousin,
iWilbur bowed gz
said Sue, “th
nis seat and faced us, and I saw that
othe end is about two and one-half
niles, and this distance was
in about 100 scconds—that
rate of a mile in forty seconds.
‘Even this speed is thought to have
t
I trust ft
beg
ef
Swi
There are fully 2,000,000 civil suits of
law brought. in the country every year.
{ the plaintiffs were different in ev ery
-ase, one in eight of the voting popula-
his face was away from us. | tion could be said to be'a litigant. As
is Is my | itis, the actual number of different liti-
Myrtle Varner.” Ap. gants is not in excess of 800, 00—400,~
acefully. At the same | 000 plaintiffs and 400,600 defendants—
time the other gentleman arose from | svhich i
ulation of the country, now about 80,«
dis right eye had a bandage over it. | 000.000.
‘And this is Mr. Gilson, My
said Sue.
“1 belierre I have met your
cousin bhefore—also her umbrella,” ia
Mr. Gilson, bowing.
Myrtle was blushing like a rose. “1 AND A COURT HOUSE ‘TAKEN ON A
TRIP BY RAIL.
am sorry I hurt you.” she said, after a
little. “Tt was really very awkward
of me not to look where I was going.”
“Possibly, yes,” said Mr. Gilson. "It
might have been serious. But I owe
You an apology for having spoken as
I did, just the same. And now after
You have had your breakfast, Fred
and T are going to take you and Sue
for a boat ride.”
This was the beginning of Myrtle's
We parasols—if I am a parasol—
The two weeks passed very quickly
he answer I was looking for him to
It was decided the next morning to
“So this is to be our -last day to-
’ he said, as he lit a cigar, |
“I've certainly enjoyed my vaca-
“I made it pleasant?’ he answered.
He drew up a little closer, letting
“I have almost made it a point {to
“But ‘do you know that I
as she loooked
said Myrtle. “Why, vou even
She seemed stra ngely
if, gud
ded "inc:
‘But I loved it, too, because
wanted to do all that my
——
Speed of a Landslide, -
a wave, threw’ its ‘solid spray 400
Eup the slope of the opposite moun-
" From the béginning of the sli
do
at ihe |
‘n_surpassed by a smialler, slide in
and, w Flic :h covered a mile and
wheels, and the long trip began. ’
turbed and in as good condition as
worship, and the owners are proud of
their success in obtaini
new edifice.
readjustment of the towns of the
plains. Hundreds of additions are
wiped out by every Legislature. The
last session in Kansas changed about
forty paper cities into farm land.
score of buildings, and some aspired
to be centres of business activity. They
issued maps showing dozens of rail-
roads centering there, fact Lies belch-
ing smoke, and street cars
the far suburbs. :
strength of these maps, #nd then
waited for the towns {o grow. - Instead.
they faded away until whole: munici-
palities had but one family left to
each. Schoolhouses costing thousands
of dollars stood empty, cattle were
sheltered in the one-time emporiums of
trade. Out in Southwestern Kansas
a cattleman owns the entire town site
of what was to have been a county
seat.
make prosperous towns of paper cities
which have at last gone back to the
open plain and have heen sold by the
acre instead of by the lot.
&choolbouse in Western Kags. A
homesteader has taken possession of a
former county seat and its cour t house,
Western Nebraska and the Dakotas
have been shattered by the events of
the last few years, while population
has been readjusting itself. They tell
you in North Dakota of a town built
for a eat cattle packing ‘centre, on.
the that the packing houses’
should be located near the range.
of thousands of dollars into.the town.
It is described as having brick blocks,
plate glass windows, dwellings enough
for 5000 persons, and ‘a $200,000 steel:
brid;
«cept the caretakers.
ginnings of its vast undertakings. The
people for whom it was built never
came. ’
of early judgment with ‘charact cristie
promptitude and directness. © For in-
stance, dn Western Nebraska two
towns vere rivals for the county seat.
cured the honor, but Alliance obtained
the rajlroad’s favor, and it became evi-
dent’ that it would be the larger of
the two places. -So the vourt house,
weighing seventy tons, forty feet high.
and measuring thirty-six by, Jorty- eight
feet, was made 7i
placed on four trucks of freight cars,
with "diagonal guy ropes reaching to
coal cars Cary)
andshxuled by an engine at a rate of
ten miles an Hour to its new location,
where it" How stands.
City, in Logan ‘County, was 'a hotel
three stories high that became useless
because it’ was in a town -with no in-
hab’tants..
in threshing the Western trops—the
autoinocbiles of the plains. It was
miles to Cove City, but tbe ‘el
3 1
re
el 1 i
Our Civil Suits.
s one per cent. of the total pope
——— rte ent eect et §
towns induce the moving of houses
over long distances. M. Westhaver, of
Sterling, Kan., d&
Nickerson.
so he put it on trucks that weighed,
with the timbers, nine tons, hitched
it to a traction engine and took it
ten miles over sandy roads to its new
location, where it was set down unin-
jured. This would be possible only
“Church Moved Forty Miles.
Two Incidents of the Process of Readjustment Going On in
the West--Fate of Deserted Towns--Ioss of a Whole
County --- Some 1 Breas House Moving,
HE spectacle of a church
being = moved over the
prairies from town to town
has attracted much atten-
->g tion in Kansas recently.
The: Methodist Church of .sndale has
Just made the longest journé: of any
church on record, forty: miles. It
went overland to -Peek, Kan., in the
wake of three traction engines hitched
tandem.
The town of Andale did not need ihe
church, and Peck did; so the official
boards arranged for a transfer of title,
and the problem of moving the prop-.
erty was before them. The railroads
asked a large sum of money for freight,
and to ship the building in that way.
meant to tear it down and rebuild it.
The proposition of taking it overland,
laughed at in the beginning, was finally
accepted, and the movers gured three
of the largest threshing engines of the
county for the purpose. .The building
was placed on trucks with large
Owing to the smooth roads and the
level lands of ‘the Arkansas Valley,
there was little trouble in moving the
structure. “Passing west of . Wichita,
it arrived at its mew lauding place
without a piece of plastor being dis-
when it left. It is in readiness for
g So easily a
This experience is but a part of the
Many of these municipalities- had a
us shing to
«
Eastern people bought Its on the
Men were kiiled in the’ struggle to
ET
A Boston woman owns A $10,000
The dreams of many an investor in
An Eastern syndicate pu hundreds
e—but. with, no inhabitants ex-
It never succeeded in even the be-
The West is adjusting these errors
One of them, Hemmingford, had se-
1 by. fgisses axa
ig 60,000 pounds each,
Pu
Out in Western Kansas, at Page
At was placed on moving
d five traction.engines w efe
to it such engines as are used
fifty
nbs
: them a track as smooth &s
of a peaceful sea, and
the journey -affi a swift
nothing in aghe vast
“level sod terferimg with
The sight was a novel cure,
¢ building ‘took its way over
> and attracted many specta-
d
The changing fortunes of. Western
ted to move to
He did not find a sale for his house,
-West arranges its possessions satis-
waves aloft, but it is a recreation of
salt or: fresh water, ‘who would go
a-fishing. ~ A
is to mark: the blind holes on golf
links. The cup of iron or tin that
forms ihe hole is changed about fre-
quently on the putting green, to keep
the” turn from being worn off too
much in one spot; and save when a
hole intervenes the disk or flag will be
in view all the way from the tee.
hole is an aid to the golfer on the
approach shots; and when a hillock
or a: bunker hides the signal, the hole
is a blind one and the approach has to
be played in a state of doubt.
‘much to relieve the blind holes of
their terrors by the substitution of
an old-fashioned bamboo fishpole on
such greens for the short -ivron rods,
In Britain, doubtless, where the exist-
ing ¢ondition, like ihe microbé-haunted
moss on the cottage thatch, is often
preserved because it is ald, the blind
holes may still have to be approached
by blind reckoning. But on the golf
courses frequented by New Yorkers,
unless the hill that guards the green
is an exceptionally high one, the wox-
act location ofe the hole is apparent
‘by 35 sight of the flag fluttering on
the tall cane red.—New York Sun.
cerned, it deserves motice that not
merely geology, but almost every form
of inquiry into the past, throws further
back the limits usually assigned.
furnishing fresh proofs of the an-
tiquity of civilization. Professor Flin-
ders Petrie expounded at Owens Col-
dege, Manchester, England. a few days
ago, the results of recent explorations
‘at Abydos, in Upper Bgypt, from
which it appears that the ruins at {hat
one spot tell a continuous story that
carries us hack to 5000 B. C. Abydos
was the first capital of Egypt, and re-
mained for forty-five centuries the re-
ligious centre, the Lanerpugy of the
Jand, and there tie
tion Fund lh: 1S une ani¥ed the remains
of “ten successive tenipies, one over
the other.” From the age of the first
temple a group of about 200 objects
has been found, which throw SUrpiis-
ing light on the civilization of. thé first
pottery vase of Mena, the first King:
of the first dynasty, about 4700 Baul,
and also inlaying it with a second
€olor. The ivory carving was aston-
ishingly fine, Agigure of a king showing
a subtlety and power of expression as
; 00d as any work of later ages.” z
At about 1000. B. C. an ivory. statuette
of Cleops,the huilder of the great prya-:
mid, was found, the only known por-’
trait of him. Making" cvery possible
allowance for ihe marvellous rapidity
of art development, must not ma ny
thous sands of years have rolled over
between the pristine dwellers in the
Nile Valley and the men who carved
ivory statuettes and “manufactured
glazcd'work inlaid with second colors?
It is a long, long march from flint im-
plements to the solemn’ temple ivory
statuettes and human portraits.—I.on-
don Telegraph. :
Abyssinia. = Nearly S00%miles of tole [®
phene wire have already been put up
there, and 107 JO miles are: under con:
struction.
Enocking them down in this salu-
brious exercises, and monkeys who forefinge
Swing on the wires.—London Tit-Bits.
now at Victoria Falls, more than 1600
miles from Cape Town, on the Zam-
besi. The Vietoria Falls Hotel is 7»
progress, and at last accounts had :
ready accommodations for forty Eres)
the accommodations including electrie
lights,
with the level roads of the prairie
region. :
It will be many years before the
factorily and decides where it wishes
to have its buildings permanently lo-
cated. The methods by which it re-
models and transfers its towns and
buildings, will in the meantime prove
very interesting.
Nowhere : else is it considered a
trifling thing to transfer and relocate
a city or to change a court house's
situation. More than that, a dispatch
related the other day that a whole
county was lost, the high winds hav-
ing drifted the sand over the boundary
stakes and made it. impossible to tell
where the limits had been placed.
Some day the West will need a new
map to describe it as it has finally de-
cided to stay.—Sun.
THE OLD BAMBOO ROD.
re ——
A New Use in Golf For jhe Old Fishing
Pole.
About New York the old, one piece
bamboo fishing pole is now used more
ashore than afloat. , "There is still good
sport going on wherever its supple end
landsmen and not of the dwellers hy
This modern use of the long canes
To know the exact location of the
, Now, American ingenuity has done
The Dawn of History.
So far as the question of time is con-
®
Egypt, for instance, is continually
yptian Explora-
dynasty. A part of a large glazed
owed “that even then they were
aaling glaze on a considerable sciile,
t Telephone Fropblest in Be ByEsinia.t
Civilization proceeds with speed in
spare,
SOrrow,
others, whereat they
and pray that the saints would soften
miserly heart.
That same evening
took their way home
they noticed an old woman sig-
ting beside the wooden
roadside.
paused before this
prayer on their way to and from their
labor, but they did not stop this time
because the old woman
outsiretched as
so they all went hy
ed not to seo her.
Only Bettina waited
looked Lungry
knew just how that
she went vp to her
that the old womau’'s trouble was quite
of another kind.
side her was an overturned hasket of
beautiful grapes, :
dame tried to put the fruit hack
the basket it ail fell out again
“I.et me help you, Signora
little girl, and bent over
but the old woman called out shriily:
“Go away, go, away!
your helping means.
me to repay you
placed the grapes.
selfish everyone is.’
Borgo's
fields,
alms,
woman
how
hea fairy,
carments fell , away,
there ‘clad in a long LOWn
Just the very color of. Ti
Her face, was quite young
hair. fell about her shoalde: x
In one hand she hela
about with clus-
silk:
her
a silver shower,
a long
ered her
Grapetta,
smiling Kindly,
touch the
and immediately
With "oiirih”
As 00m as she had sai
4 The contractor's task, how- | she flew right up in the blue’ sky
ever. is by no means an easy ore, The i
chief trouble is given by elephants,
THE GRAPE
In Italy there
nian named Borgo,
and miles of beautiful vineyards,
who would not pay the peasants work-
ing in them enough
them to buy food.
You may be very
was not loved by
women and litile, children
during the long, sunny hours in order
to fill his baskets
cluster of the beautiful
But Borgo did not care whether they
liked him or not, s
tinued to grow richer every vear.
Among the peasants in Borgo's vine-
gard there worked. a little girl named
Bettina, who was compelled to sup-
port her poor old Eien by
ing the grapes.
than she how hard it was to live on
the miserable wages
paid. One day,
mother’s suffering and lier
ger, Bettina went to sce
old man, and asked him
by the peasants,
copper coins, whieh he
to their seant.wages.
Borgo Janghed aloud at Bettina
told her the vineyard workers
well enough paid,
soon reduce their wages still more.
The poor cLild went away full
and imparted the news to the
all began to weep
Bettina shrank
words, but her
prompted her to
again, which she did, explaining mean-
time that she asked neo reward.
Soon the grapes were piled: carefully
into the basket
£0.
Bettina looked
wag a polite child,
show that she doubted
word.
“Whenever yon
ina stood s
who use the poles. as scratching posts, Hiren down at hor
South African Progress.
he Cape to Cairo railroad head is
day whe
could not
to do this,
She stopped before
grapes, which grew
wages to enable
sure that Borgo
and that he should
rar g wor her s often
The viney
and she saw then
and Bettina
The old woman had watched hey
silently as she worked,
spoke.
“My child,” she said,
had changed suddenly
of tones, “my child,
Your assistance.
selfish little girl,
it possible for nie to aid the pea
although tliey nearly forfeited my help
by their refusal: to r
Know that I am not an old woman at
all. I am the Fairy
watéh over the vineyards.
Bettina had never
fore, but she was sure she must really
for.as she SNoke hey ra
on you have made
He shouted ai the peasants
but they were nodonger afraid
selustor after clu
show er of brown «
. gSecing that his words
"P¥ession on the peasants, and
srapes were indeed worthless
wand twined
ters of grapcs and their glos
leaves. :
“Now,” continued the Fairy Grapetta,
“held out your hand,
you the nower te
Borgo repent.”
“\¥hat shall Tdo?%dF will be
wan! I will be ruined!”
Bettina held out her
right hand and the fairy slowly low-
wand aud touched the fore-
finger and the little finger with it.
“Whenever you please,”
“you can touch the gr:
forefinger and
est” wine”
have
Store your grapes if only” you
proinise to pay your Deaple fair
their hard labor? « Ses! she sai
touched with her foreiuger sever:
arapes that lay on the
him, One of the
3
they
close to the roadside. She would try]
it what the fairy had said could really;
be true. With her small finger ex-
tended she touched several of the lus-
cious grapes, and then broke open
their satiny skins. When io! instead
of the fruit which she expected to find
inside, there fell to the ground a little
trickling shower of coarse, brown clay.
Bettina then tried the forefinger, with
which she touched some of the nearest
berries. These she pressed open, ard
hehold! a arapeful of rich, red wine
flowed out immediately.
So then it was true, the fairy bad
really given her this queer little gift.
But how was it to help her to make
Borgo pay the peasants, better wages?
Bettina shook her head sadly.’ She
could not understand.
Late that night, whilé she was Sleep-
ing softly in her little hut, she heard
her name calied. It was the sweet
voice of the Fairy Grapetta, and Bet-
tina awoke to find her standing at the
foot of her bed, clad in her silken robes
of purple, with the moonlight falling
upon her wondertal silver hair.
“Get un! get Up” she eried. “Why
are you not making use of your power?
Your must go forth into the vineyard
at. once, and to-morrow the wicked
Borgo will repent of this evil ways.”
Bettina arose and dressed. and fol-
lowed the Fairy Grapetta out into the
moonlight, until she came to the vine-
Yard, where .. the « glistening purple
grapes and their green leaves covered
the vines in‘ thick Profysion.
“Now,” said the fairy, #touch cvery
grape with your little finger. and thew
I will leave you to think out for your-
self how the rest uust be accom-
plished.”
Again she vanished, and Bettina did
as she was bid. As she touched o14
after grape with her small fing
at onee she saw what the fairy meant
her to do, and she ran Lome
moonlight, laughing happily to
self.
The next day the great trou-
ble in the vineyard, for the peasants
had told Borgo that his Des were
filled with earth. "The wicked ‘old
man stormed and raved and stamped
lis feet, |
“I am bewitched!” he. cried. +I am
bewitched!” and at last, when hisyrage
had exhausted its
. he begun {0 weep,
But nobody was very sorry for him, for
he had never been sorry for anybody
eine,
At last Bettina siepped to him, and
said: .
“Oh, master, it was I who bewitched
Jour grapes, and if is a punishment
because you would not pay us enough
money for food. Only say that you re-
pent and all will be well. I promise
You that your zo ‘apes shall all berfilled
with richest wine.
"When Borgo he 1 this he screamed
at Bettina’ with all bis might,
“Go away, you evil child! Go'away!
Goaway, or I will have you burned for
a witch!” But Bettina did not move,
only looked at him quietly and said:
“Oh, nog I%¥1miE not afraid of sy ou,
Borgo, for I am ihe ly one who
knows how to fill your grapes awit
wine.” a
Borgo turned to his peasants, on.
“Burst open the pe
angrily. “Burst thtin open,
There must he only «a few w which « are
filled with clay. the rest are all ict,
Is know, and 1 pay vou enouch Wages
Say, do I not pay you enough w
i
tor as they burst the grape
er sent
1, and
juiey fruit was go
made
fell once more to crying.
“Oh! what shall 1 do?’ he
Bettina began to feel very sor ‘LY for
Irer master, even thous *h he had, Been
so cruel She went over to hi
put one little: and timidly on his
deriva
“Don’t ery, master,” she said
1 1 +l 1 8
not told you that I vy
e ground bi
peasants:
80 she dried not to
i by sprang forward and erashe
fruit under his foot and
Oi
shaking her silver :
sicht of the wine.
pes with your: little fi:
- IY grapes once more, that
uot lese all my fortunes « we
small brown hand,
which she held closed,
1 and little finger, and this is a
position in which some
people hold their
n they wish to ward off evil,
“I give you. power
wicked Borgo repent!”
the fairy had said.
continued her journey
see how it lay
he @id. and ever afterwards
was called the Gr
years she brospered with "the ‘other
peasants, and lived to be an old, 01d
woman, and it was said that she pos-
sessed the power to. change the grapes
is’ certain, old Bor
tan
a.tlin strea: i of red wine flow vd
Borgo 1: 1 Eis head quickly o at.
JL’. he to Betti,
promise any ihat you s:
Bettina promiSed that it sh
Ii
So, and’ Borge promised ‘to ingle se
the wages of the poor pe: asants, g
ape Girl! For man y
at will all her life long. One thing
go believed so, and
never dared to illtieat his peasants
again.—Anna Mable, in the indiana
“aymer.
Gunnery practice at Newport ba
' frightened Away the fish.
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te, was a
man and h
and he kind!
an idle how
the true inw
in the footh
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he said, “I'll
er remarkatl
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but a few n
light night «
meandering
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a pocket kn
my pistol to
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respectfully
he was the
his winter's
mgly custon
had a wip
there is .se
man to tell
}+*0On this
dead tired,
day.” 1 ha
my mule,
mule did j
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fellow who
more those
r then,
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hy some pe
the most |
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Suddenly
my pocket
tion match
of bhrimsto
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and encoun
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down unde
right in th
within a
a dozen mi
into his op
more sudc
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shook wit
the mule
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side of hi
thought I
on muleba
situation ¢
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er of bu
rather str
carried av
is what }
To cut thi
and ignor
“Now, §
relate fur
of that old
to his fur
up, but i
be well 1
of the cas
—Liverpo
RETUR
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men of t
recently
charge of
honorable
and have
“absent Vv
a fine an
house, th
‘American
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When th
ganized
rushed tc
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miles Gif
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last spri
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will-o’-th
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started «
railroad.
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