THE GRASS A-GREENING. ] 1 while we were © ywerhauling it he cawed an i Sh in great Siete; wane Foils of the ~~ Aunt Celia Tives s with us, her room’s the one Aunt Celia lets so many come to see her pa iat night we talked it over, and ¢ rots . Zebra Shoes Are Worn—Cravats, or bothered | 4€cided that restoration was our only . ° ° Gloves, Belt d Boots to Match si proper course. The long-suffering Ital- t ves = an 3 lo Ae! : of, fon the £ 1% ussian Sys en so os Of | Gu reer must | Took arrowsond ians were now six miles away; but on slim this season. How it is to be TO MAKE FEET LOCK SLENDER. are some s and cries- >» >. & seem pret- And fone Doon ho stembles she has £ urday we procured a pair of farm © ° a ¥hy, she And roor Miss Kate McIemingway, who | 107scs and a wagon with three seats |g 4 . Pre Now Intolerable managed in every case cannot very Ana rainy oe rhaumatisn’s dreagdrul N wv $2 faons dress. wy a for our Journey of reparation. The e clearly be understood, but the boot- But She fs always chebriul, and she tells us, Th y nt I Suen Aunt Celia tells them SRE Pee ce auae ne C ; a oi Be ul, and s is us, hey come because Aun 11s em, i and we Lf nereh in th I ; W i : cl pha game be ig wg va so) up a perch in the zar Nicholas Too Weak to Stem Uast Curreznt. Spor fren Melos in such » manned ids the gra s aw she vhich Blackamoor was a slenderness of appearance is in- € ] chained in token of punishment. Af : duced. Women with small and dain- 2 Ny pama says Aunt Celia bad a little boy Last week Aunt Celia was so very sick our | ter this manner six of us drove to By Andrew D. White, tily shaped feet are with much daring FET Except I'm nearly six years cold, and he was To hay . with him, and I guess | tae Jew camp. ” Former American Ambassador to St. Petersburg. actually wearing at this moment in 0 And RI when t Celia’ was aint Rye though v better, fo | Wken we arrived the gang was hard those circles where fashion reigns su- 2 a, Np E el ay Amn would get any better. for | 5 work in a ‘cutting: but when, oe fe Teodor fs F the Czar is a weak man, as the present Emperor is, he can | preme and mud is not white kid boots She Zaitey sme name's Fred, rei | ea 1s. every doctor had a melan- after another, tuey caught sight of FF = 3 do very little. A weak man cannot know anything about the with toe caps of black patent leather, For she looked when she And atter d all gone—we'd felt too bad | ONT Wagon, with _.ackamoor atop, ex- + %* Empire to speak of, because he is surrounded by grand | and nothing could beimore charming. % 250 i Ts Rn s of times, and Pa said. Lh Fooo 0h was shaking | clamauons, not of a complimentary & # dukes, women, etc, who tell him what they want him to be- Alas that fashion should lay such Aheh gue. hssed times, ar ei is mouth was shaking | nature, burst forth all along the li o & lieve. a trap for those whose pedal extremi- And Jhpered-o] hear, she “I all should do if | But I beckoned to th boss, fd | ° x The main difficulty in the whole case is that the Em-| es are not all that beauty would “I'll find the grass a-greenirg if 1 dig away My mama cried, and said, “How could we | and after showing him cur basket and =r mt percr is suvposed to do ali the thinking for 140,000,0000 of have them be. The wise, of course, : } the snow. dig away the snow : | explaining the circumstances, asked | ids iden people scattered over the largest territory possessed by any will abjure white, which males the -Z : —@G. T. Evans, iz Youth's Companion. | to allow each of the men to take government in the world, with all sorts of different races, re- | foot look ever so much larger than it The ! | what belonged to him. ligions and ideas, and this no man can do, and least of all in a time like this. néed do, but they may choose one of woman, ; | “Ah, sure!” replied the ‘foreman, The simple fact is that the evils of the old system have now become abso- | the other colored leathers, such as Bre oxy i RA RA HR HAL CR ARE RAR HAR RRRAAAAR RRA Kwa | | With a broad grin. “Here, all of you,” | Jut€ly intolerable. And when you add to that fact the sending off of immense dove and green, both of which have an ON : 1 : RRR ER RR RR RRs 2 1 he shouted down the cutting, “come | BUMDETS of the best young men in the country to an utterly useless and wicked | excellent effect in the diminution of -and oth i 5 ? % I | get your trinkets what the crow | Var and the pressure of taxation which grinds the people to the dust, you | Size. Made .d i a $ — CHK M s9 2! stole” have a situation which none but the very strongest rulers in all human his-| Kid cravats arrive to match these painted ? 4 ¥ ) A A OOR.. 8 | wondering. ¥ne ging elittered tory cap cope with. The Czar has no strength of character, no proper educa- | new kid boots. They started their Soars 2 v5 3 : 2 ilu tne wasn Bop athd A an tion, and is hopelessly unfit to grapple with the situation. triumphant career primarily as the: ; yith w i } 3 hho Le da x | the basket and what was in it, the live | 3; No doubt the worst of the features of the situation have been kept from | &ccompaniments of moter car skirts, throva., | PRNBENRRE PERRI RN RR PR EER ER RRR REN RRR | liest expressions of satisfaction arose. | and ‘were liked at the cutsel for their holsere \ i | Each seized his ow. =: Eighty years ago a struggle took place against the incoming Emperor smartness and because they clean and showing $+ Many will wender how I managed | pines, or at least was flying back and | I had the foreman say to them how poms LL ons he aandigion gf tifugs Was by no Meany dM mt nw Sven bi > Yo Adiitandy a ea i : to keep order in the schociroon i | fort} gi aT 2 a | very sorry we were that cur bad bird rent And ips Zmperor wes 2 yw much stronger man than the present | & Vise > Risthnne Tome the Guise 0 keep order in the schoclroom and | forth a great deal, “hawing” and | =~ Eth ot TAS oot. Tha ruler. He simply shot down the insurgents in one of the great squares of the | tet of smart adjuncts, and if the cra- : give proper attention to the lessons | “harring.” { Bo a ese une on city, ordered a number of revolutionists to be hanged, sent the more moderate | Vat be a colored one all the rest of The ‘ | with three baby woodchucks, a turtle, | All appeared to go well for a while. | or tas Gols Ie > ee . a PIL | reformers to Siberia and so stopped the whole difficulty. Not unlikely the ad- | the little etceteras must, cf course, idea of ! two squirrels and a young cow about | Then one forenoon I heard loud shouts | 3 pol ress as lave ever Wil | yisers of the present Emperor will'try to do the same thing by shooting down | match. As this is quite a new note in At any 1 i] the place. 1 My fellow teachers will De | outside, and cn going to the door, saw ee the insurgents, and in that way they may have something like peace for some | sartorial fancies it should at once be ; et—a b g inclined to say that jhe children would | a hatless Italian pursuing Blackamcor Fhe Italians took off r hats and | time to come. But important changes cannot much longer be delayed. seized as the hall mark of smartness Lu now tc t have eyes ax dd sara for nothing else. across the pasture helow thie house. | bowed all round. One them then The Grand Duke Vladimir is the Emperor's uncle; he is a trained soldier | for a new spring toilette. : i cloth a; bf In point of fact it made little differ- | He was a very active young man, and made a little speech, which the Irish | of the old sort and a believer in strong measures, such as have always been The shoemakers have discovered times 1 i i i ence after my pupils became accus- was filling the air with stones and | boss trax nsiated after his own fash-| practiced in the Russian Empire. what the glovers have also found out, quite as } tomed to the sight and sound of these ion, somewha ke this: that champagne colored kid makes the. special ¥ | : “pets.” Moreover, they were a source however, was taking it | It's all they say. You are 9 ¥2 oF ow feet as well as the hands look their subway 1 ! of endless Donne and, I think, prof- 3 g low, but keeping out | CSL good. neatest and smallest, and in conse- : times if : f it for I gav e little talks upon the hab- | of reach. He had something in his their hearts. £1 3 quence it is a used now for out- ] Yiew al 1 1 its and history of all these creatures, beak. ) 3 door and indoor shces and has met pin or t A b and sought to inculcate Soniimenis of Catching sight of me in the dcor- | with great popularity. : smart o i compassion and love toward all liv- | way, the Italian stopped, but gesticu- The forema apologe y. ro h a t Is G tl ? Also Le it known that a very smart pocket 1 ne things. lated eagerly, pointing to the crow; ey want to - ua ie) 1e § da € mn e ni a n ® evening shoe is made of brown Russia. vet coat Ta was my re es however, oe he Said much that I failed utterly 1. een leather treated in what is known as - of ,the i d people wondered. The supervis- | to comprehend. c t hould be iohte: he zebr q S wr though : or also wondered, and was skeptical. [* I confectured that Bladkaoor had Ll Tw ad delighten, By George Harvey. ty manner, with bars of nar ii ZB : « 01 nmed yf ‘hem stepped w dibbon to match it in cclor. These Jewe Several of the parents, who did not | purloined something, and felt that I | forth together and sang: It Wox an are formed in stripes so arranged that Compan Rhdensung _n Fel Lonnie i a RT going to the | Herien song, concerning a Countess of £3 3 Dee Sos 3 wade to look long and a school. There were some, even, who plished. We nes I me z oe {over ye. Xing n HE president of Harvard has lately used the word gentleman ee Bream SE gun Sit no: with ta hate thor children) he tugged of he Sh ne Ey Abyssinia, and had a refrain so plais- in defining his idea of what a college student ought to be. It is Tether ead that we ould At on taught netnral History! hess tt FOOTE of oe NE sl 8 n catch myself trying | It is a dangerous word, tangled as it is with old-time weak- try to follow one pattern of foct. A T came home and asked questions. They | away. ? : a : ness and old-time strength. Dr. Eliot has been attacked, | fo years ago the girl with the deli- o ed { did not like it and deemed it quite un- But a crisis was at hand, Th o Nox, thet, g it back to your wort, 2 Nore me thet Yor using it. He mitigated it, however, by cately Sail one aid her very ‘best to a | necessary. They desired to have their | ong Cn I 2n.0f 18 $90. men!” shouted the boss, and so this associating with it the word democratic. The compound make it look athletic in appearance } : Children atiend strictly to their Bool 'g alterward an alarming | cdd little episode . which he described is an admirable creation, whatever may ' : B I. > in the c i studios” ° onan began, as I was hearing a Yet it was not wholly ended, either, L_& 8B | De thought of the felicity of these two words. “A gentle- by roaring square toed apd mascuiing mering ] class in mental arithmetic. The house | for in O tober Lo Seid . er Y looking boets. Now she is pleased to its fond It came about, therefore, that at the | was surroundeq by xoited Itali oo 2 In October, as the ga ramped . men, hars the Drosident, is quiet. . He does not bluster, Or | show it as nature made it in shoe where it .end of the second term the position | Stones rattleq on nd Pee oligne back along the roa 4-hed of the railway, id onlay, or vociferate. He is a serene person.” So far Dr. Eliot has leather of the most fanciful und pretty Sis was given to another teacher, and for | shouts filled Meo om 0g , Ry going home with all their packs and sion with him, He goes on: “Another of his qualities is a disposition to type. . i 32 one whole term my occupation Was |The children wore ter Hn as re Soh, bundles, one of those who had suag dis Superior iiies in persons, rather than their inferiorities.” It is to be Antelope skin is a favorite choice on on gone. a pe was come ty to the schoolhouse and laid feared hat Hsiorielly the kind of supericrs wth whom ‘gentlemen sought among the rich, and the very smart ce ns Yet my former pupils lamented so |of glass crashed a ra pate | a little bouguet of frost flowers and LG associate would hardly be deemed remarkable for actual superiority today. | walking shoes are built of a pale Velv 1 { openly and said so much at home, | against The Silos ob bn 5 i ban ged red autumn leaves cn the door-step. rautegs would be due to him who should invent a word containing the valu- gray shade of this skin, with black wn ve . that their small voices wrought a Veostly lore ae e house. Catching sight of me through the | &l le part of the meaning of “gentleman” and omitting the class implications. patent leather backs and front. White oXqu oh . change of opinion, and at the begin- | out of the witdow 5 9 Ty 3 peered window, he nodded brightly, pointed New 1deals need new words. ‘Bright theughts, clear deeds, goustaney, Adel antelope is also used with patent leath- mo or 1 ning of the second year the school was | dians could hardly Ye iy wild In- | to the bouquet, nodded again, then ow bounty, and a honesty” are the qualities attributed by Sir Thomas | o. ftings ana slate gray is not de- RE given to me agai The teacher who Savage than ig ot. ae more hurried on after his fellow 1 went Brown to the “true heroic English gentleman.” Emerson calls a gentleman spised, especially with a toilette to e ey Bad (Alan inn res eel litle eons B 3 se Italians, hurling | to the door, and Ww when they saw me | “the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social] TX 70° ; xr. yrenths Sully, on leavin om and club8 at the house. there. halt 2 1A Tath wo power.” Ruskin attributes to him fi ss of bodily as well f men match. As all the grays are most 4 make th , caving, that I had spoiled Yet through it all I kh figre, fail a ungred ev hats were | Vo : Im fineness gt nodily 33 Woll a8 of mel tal | iodish now gray shoes are in great 1 + the school for dny one else. a. wolf tint the Hens Lo ong E suspicion raised and hands were waved in to- Strnen Thackeray, who sometimes laughed at this word, asks, among demand. —London Daily Mail = gre cost a very worthy young lady, but one of ny war directed at | ken of farewell. : other things, if a gentleman ought to ‘be a true husband, of decent life, with by TE those who scream at the sight of a | for J os : an against us: I thought of our previous fears debts all paid, with wisdom and lofty, aims. It would be a rash person who The Wild Duck’s Flight Fis spider, a mouse or a harmless snake. ed heey hi I had heard our | of the hard things that had been should describe these virtues as gentlemanly. In days of class division each| gi. ichad almost flat in their sneak- Never EI men sae to cohol: cre arg, aay, aw!” a mofent before | and was ashamed. Again the tr class had its superiorities—the peasantry, the gentry, and the bourgeoisie. Our 1 Be me a mer fesses h morning in July, head downward, in the hapa Durst forth. | that humane old proverb ideal "man today Iva combination, «nd he.draws ot least as much of his char [Poros the TW0 duck Dingers hives 3 really the hands of one of my larger boys, a ry By Yecidedly alarming | to me: agter fron the-bourgoisiey or middle class, as from the arisiceracy. Harper's Bi Le I Maw > a ty ames lasted, and continued for a «Ajmost everybody Is n good fellow Weekly. rs eB ei g rl of tellin: tle inclined to. thoughtless cruelty. On en longer time than was pleasant. et at him r ieht. Bene NJ or 2? = ons ae we geo bie know no ; the part of children, indeed, ply ! i It more prudent to keep the And Bie chen doen Li > rn a diy ry Lig i egal aT are ~~ | door locked than to go for non- a Aokumony? oie ong here g Soin of Jeo him unc Iv rach after hey have been taneht | Tare mm ATI Jo ournalism as a Pr of Toward thems ish in tho gray sty, RY wut era to think on the Hoke alma: after a great bombardment, ie arin fir vi pte 4 ed a e3sSion Ay i St di SN friend to Wiggan and his older brother had BE Fy a Cig sided. and the AUT Tolgration, re vi cencela he Fhbrbbbbdbd bit bd PEERRRRRRERRRRRRETE Ee ne ig - ii al . to the { ast sense of relie saw th : - 4 . ’ > ent to eT ee zoom hi 3 16 Me Aan ied ie) ies i diy Ci Er ganed us pe ond Sette By George Harvey, wires Bed Hove eat and finally, four loud ol the 15 Fr > ormpa ior B 3 of i i Be Sa will have guessed - that bi re SIater of couree tha ne Lr Sieitelpiiciios Editor of Harper's Weekly. svioiiioidons £4 {hi ducks swept on. None oh ’ i ackanroor was the young crow wi 0 so ce terrible accounts ALETYN AEN’'S ABIES 3 4 1 Yo . | became one of ons, sohiogl, hangs nels nd RO pnd opr Soll Soren WohENs RaBizS Seinen F one indicates little regard for himself or for the fellows of Gig i the giopmy Water ofthe in every ral w 1 3 J = ommunity waxe t faves uw 3 is cr . hc pa ae or : 5 20 we hit = pe 4d Im 8% Looms deomen an a a A Steady Improvement in the Stand-| % = ty iid I Jor sei a Po The two men as soon as they had _— } Bor mpl Ix COLYArs, | oigners. ft hi ards of Fachionable Families. x I Ee hy sirawn 3 jouer themselves | gotten over their disappointment, be- 11 of where we kept him until he could fiy. | 7.) = : * % azainst the profession of journalism. It is not that they do | gan to converse in low tones well obs After that he was released, to stay The suspicion, however, remained | A young goclety woman of Ch “« ++ not réaily respect themselves and their co-laborers; they do. 2 “Charlie,” said th : ks ‘hv d what fre With us or depart. He chose to stay, | Yih me that Elackamoor was atthe | who oils ed the part of nurse girl orortor gegen: But Ly every possible method they convey the impression FRIES SE he young, Yay 4o duces! a 7 : usuallv sat | POttom of all ihe trouble 3 ve | soverdore In sev files de + oie Bee ih : a i °F (Pessioll| gucks fly in a triangle? Tahar and during school hours usually sat |. a 1e trouble. 1 had the | governess in several cities, d = CRA LK that they do not. They seem to prefer hi be regarded as “Why.” said the other, “is a ship's SEFONS on the ridge of the school house roof. | PO¥S catch him and make him fast | that “American women care no more IEEE: ti4 cynical ratoer than as sincere; as smart, alert, successtul, | pow poi toa? Coit dan lin >. . 1 ing to 1 At night he often accompanied me | 2521, this time with a small dog- | about the bringing up of their i rather than thoughtrul, capable and worthy. hy ro a Dore ine toys anc home, and lingered about the farm- chain, which he could not bite off. He | dren than if they were so many cat The sneering, silly and inexcusable remark, savoring of the vulgarity of ia u o a on : S mee bed, says house or barns till school time the | €@Wed vigorously, but we kept him at | tle.” No superficial study of American the ostentatiously “self-made” man, “I am not a journalist, I am a newspaper pi So 2 ep 1 % Mothe: next day. At the recesses he swag. |anchor for a week or more. And | life by a society woman, or anyone man,” has done more to check the growth of ideals in the eager minds of thou- Fi Sher rg 0 Bnc Le NO girls ang gered and hopped about with the chil- | Meanwhile the Italian camp was | else, can serve as an excuse for such | sands of young men than any like utterance upon the altar of epigram. Of all Sore is a remarkable fact. Th away or dren at play, often cawing uproarious- moved to a point six miles farther | a statement. Society women are not of us in this room who have given mind, heart and conscientious endeavor to! gueck th g fies iii dat th } t > Wearing, ly. along the line of the new railway. invariably the most attentive mothers, | Public service there is probably not one whose perspective, at some point of a, a the Se is Do 9 into bag: If a dog or cat approached during |. At a school house in the country it se. there never was, prob- | is career, has not been blurred by this stupid differentiation, Ahn and AN skilled. It 3 provided toot oars. Diaahnmber wold ore. is often difficult to get small repairs | ably, a time when society gave The contrast of terms is of cour only phrasing and inconsequential. But Lard Rare though to fly at the tn Boys s “Harr!” from the roof, and drive th made. Early that season the boys | more attention to their children than the idea conveyed, the deliberate insistence upon being regarded not merely | ang no duck can stay there alo orderly. had broken a pane of glass in the low | they are giving now. There never was | @s cynieists, but as mechanics, if not indeed as day laborers, has been fruitful | og soon as he ets tired he rope Gothen of infinite harm, both within and without a profession requiring the greatest| psck and another strong and skilled ing the | at the fre intruder away. If it was a person he s 4 ot? attic window t end. of the | a time when the cried “H uite ‘sharply, on a dif- e 1 I » > A iy kill 1 1 x 44 prior 1 tiOTs weer Fa ferent another crow or large noon trying to get it showed r | skill > intellect, the finest discrimination between right and wrong, the most | pi.q takes his place. bird he turned up an eye and now we showing how. forceful form of Expression and the highest order of moral courage. That the “To each triangle of wild ducts and : r low. In| At last I| L time most pctent agency in the evolution of this American nation should be thus de-| tpere is always a force of a half doz Amer 2 va ) g - se ha kant he Tingt HH of nattv 11 based, even in appearance, is surely anything but creditable those responsi- a « 1 fag, he kept us pos 2 hit of putty | ble for it and those who themselves s lu Ri a for es fo : oe 2 Toe ONS: | on splendid fivers that in regular ro- In th : i ro Anni ) se wh msel hould guard no mors , 7h > going Op ont eh ang an | IB good name than the hor f their craft Sol ore jealously their oWn | tation, lead the flight at the triangles never or a NOG £ “TO +} a y via = 00 ill 1 nor l1€ 3T . > . : 2: for ne to know if one | than de nov Tc tis genius: to do it is apex.”—Louisville Courier Journal out for v he woil p Pitiey LU HLL RRR a e enjo fooks and : tie Baha wo banner ot 2 sane idealism and ire n ee ; a a Sr JOOKS and tic par e asa 1 Kentuckian’s Home-Made Violin, nx ba hin Iniilie low 4 enlightenment and good-will lie Als lways i ny pa Mr. H. H. C..Q James of Bullitt Blacks cle of the : om : Ia : gor ie - > county, who is 80 > Be rehensib of queer Lhe the viol n) ghisl is no tin and we > 5 “Now, work in 1 own cail them to own mar doing will sper He fell sages cal a gan ot er, and [mown 40 her order from the 5 Wi ! d, wi he made and, : : Ho marketin at/ the 1e time he : : thoroughly and her pi i over their grav eg 1 C goon afraid of these | Bley: Te P what is t jabbered fier such personal qualities el Ehaat front nade what he ¢ “And t gue, and each 11 | works, and there : peace of mind, to violins he $55 air sheath-knife. “our soiled red bandannas. The Czar’'s Advantage public concern as tc th Ss or as to 1s are cor Gotu onin On the I thought it black wallet containing about a| Pete Persimmons—I de | Eanes, gtave or gay. ; nmunity was no slight com- im on his success, and : this w u not go to | « r in silver | Czar of Russia, dat’s wat! § pensation for the world’s apathy or its stinte . ages Mr. James expects it to for her b x gh 2 ae ro . | ro S81 1at's wat Ie. 1 T : > 3r ner o a bs ant th | ro tir Ty | ! ’e have chang all t T sminent s of our tim ill hav o | in tone. alt po > 3 camp. Bu! Blackamoor went there,| Two tin cups. | Tm Jackson—Why. does” you 'W future amp Be ne i 8 of our time will hase no | in ton River Tiger. her body and indeed became a constant visitor. Two pictures of contadine, you wuz de Czar of Ru va Soo 9 gh nd full ps 3018, 1 ocn Teshonse of ihe Sontem With. pleco. of : “The E There were probably tit-bits to. bo se- Ivo plugs. of: tohacco. | Pete Persimmc veloped toward a of wh o ¢ oot 1 iy me nl nem Apcotionis de san 1a hee of I 2 and 3 life “HY cured abcut their cooking-fires. For a ese are but samples. All told, | many cther troubl fer 8 i x Ag fae he 7 So £ ret ully rejoices in both the laurels.and the hey C gn gre ni some Hindoo convicts 5 ; . | 7 3 o 3 WE “TC OQ ge) svtonaivelv 3 aw o a iron ar » 3 time he nearly deserted the school-| there were at least ninety articles. It | de i dollars an’ cents J | Ame i Bs is a8 Sed S58% least; more ‘extensiyely, in| SaWed through an jron bar two inches 3 tri} : ; or : ; | =Chts 7 ca than anywhere els in dian in five hours an as house for the Italian camp in the | was Blackamoor’s hoard; and all the | owes de butcher. meric 1an anywhere else. : in diameter in five hours and escaped I from jail. 1 long wat
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