FARMERS FIND THAT BIRDS
ARE THEIR BEST FRIENDS.
CAR CONDUCTOR HAD
HIS REVENGE. ..
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT.
Kept Passenger With a Big Bill
on the Anxious Seat. But Finally
Cave Him His Change.
CQO
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THE FERFUMED BATH.
Ko woman of fashion fails to perfume
tor bath In these days. By this method
the body becomes saturated with a
faint, delicate odor. Tablets for per
fuming the bath come In all sorts of
bouquets. One of these dropped Into
ft tub of water -will perfume not only
the bath and the bather, but the room
and the whole house.
; INIQUITY OF HUSBANDS.
The miscreant Is common enough
from what one hears who won't trust
the strings of the household purse to
his wife, who doles out gold or pence as
the case may be, but won't lay down
a regular weekly sum for the regular
weekly expense. We are all quite con
vinced, and rightly so, of the Iniquity
of this proceeding. Madame.
EXERCISE OF DEEP BREATHING.
In these days when deep breathing Is
so universally counseled by the doctors
it may be advisable to proffer n few
suggestions to the delicate girl lest she
should be discouraged from continuing
this highly beneficial exorcise. She
will probably And she gets very giddy
after drawing a few breaths. This
may be overcome by breathing lying
Bat on the back, cither on a sofa or on
the floor. Even thus she may feel
giddy on rising. This may b? reme
died by placing the thumbs 0:1 the
chins and rubbing gently with the first
finger with a circular movement be
hind the ear. If these directions are
followed, in a week or n fortnight the
girl will be able to breathe without In
convenience standing up.
' HAmNESS DEFINED.
1 T have been trying to figure out n
genre! condition of happiness, and I
reach the conclusion that it consists
mainly in tlie anility to march witn
one's own generation, neither deplor
ing the progress the gcnevatlon tr.ckes,
rior grumbling because it dorn't make
wore. We can understand b"-'f the
men and women of our own rg-. or
near it. Dr. Osier spoke truth wir:i he
said that most men cease to be recep
tive to new ideas after forty: hence
our elders In the fifties, sixties and
seventies, say, who have ably guided
the affairs of the world during the
decades immediately ahead of us, will
often seem to 11s to move less rapidly
thhn we think they should toward new
industrial conditions. And the genera
tion Immediately behind us the i-est-less
chaps in the twenties nre putting
more pressure upon us from the rear
than we are able to believe Is wholly
Justified. National Magazine.
FOR SHORT GIRLS.
1 Ways of increasing her height are a
constant source of thought to the short
woman. To look her tallest at all times
he should remember some simple gen
eral rules.
High heels are a mistake; the cut
and length of the skirt are the most
important.
The best materials to give height are
either plain ones or those with n tiny
stripe running lengthwise. Full skirts
and baggy sleeves are fatal to the short
woman.
1 A very small hat is a mistake, giving
an Idea of Insignificance; and a large
one Is no better, making the small
wearer appear all hat. Safety lies In
the medium size, trimmed in a quiet,
unostentatious fashion.
; But, after all, the way a woman
valks and stands is her greatest ad
vantage or disadvantage. It is possible
for even a little woman to be so up
right and hold her head so prettily
that she will appear quite tall, without
the least suggestion of . stiffness. A
ve.'l-carrled head will give an addi
tional two inches to the height.
GUIMPES FOPULAR.
Gulmpes and stocks with long cuffs
or nndersleeves to match and surplice
effects are the fancies of the moment,
and, indeed, promise to be worn all
season. Black gowns in particular in
thin materials, with these lace or lln
Kerle accessories, are seen on num
bers of smart dresses. 1
me white guimpes are not only a
soft setting for almost any face, but
' they possess the merit of being re-
: movable so that they may be laun
dered, as do also the separate undcr
sleeves, and as it Is nround the neck
and sleeves that the summer dress Is
usually soiled a number of these sets
are essential.
Freshly cleaned or laundered mulls,
laces and lines appeal to every woman
of refinement far more than richer
materials and accessories that cannot
, tie cleaned, and it is more than prob
nble that the present reign of lingerie
accessories for runabout shopping,
traveling and gowns for other cere
monies will continue.
Short skirts and they seem to grow
-Shorter every week with short Etons
liavlng elbow! sleeves and cutaway
liecks, many with the V shape, are
now uie jiopuiur lining. sometimes
'these gowns are elaborated upon, es
pecially the lingerie waists which are
worn with the Eton Jacket. They are
extremely simple In every detail, per
lisps the- most elaborate decoration
they hn-ve taken on being that of u
.iuit full of lure In the sleeves.
Plain braid of good quality is nsed
at trimming on many and some have
lace of a plain pattern for decoration.
UXOf do not require trimming at all.
womsn preferring the simpleness of
the entire outfit. There are elaborate
frocks to wear for ceremonial occa
sions, and these are Just the thing for
outings and shopping.
WORRY DESTROYS BEAUTY.
A woman who never worries declared
that there is nothing more detrimental
to beauty in women than worrying.
The worrying woman docs nobody any
good. She simply invites the hand of
time, which writes plenty of wrinkles
on her brow, around her eyes and
mouth, paints her face yellow nud gives
a black lustre rye tlint no artifice can
brighten, says the Louisville Courier
Journal. It Is quite unnecessary to worry, and
it is n total waste of energy which
could be better employed in doing some
thing useful. The man who wrote (ii
must have been a man) "It Is not work
but worry that kills" knew something.
He had a wife, or a sister, or a cousin,
or an aunt, who worried him by the
hour, and so killed him by Inches.
That Is the worst of a worrying wom
an. She not only worries, but she
worries you.
You know a worrying woman the
moment you see her. Her character
is wrilttn in her face in wrinkles
which you w.r. W think nothing short
of a miracle would obliterate.
Downright ugliness is a heavy price
to have to pay for the possession of a
bad habit, but there it is. And not
only does worry directly Influence the
complexion for evil; its more remote
effects are no less potent In robbing
the face of the peach bloom tints which
are the admiration of the poet, the
painter and the general public. Worry
affects the entire nervous system, and
through it the liver and organs of di
gestion and the heart. The things a
woman thinks have more than any
thing else the power to make or mar
her beauty, so let her beware of worry
ing overmuch, lest she lose the great
est of all the gifts.
CRAZE FOR LINENS.
Heavy linens have a conspicuous
place In the modes of smart winter re
sorts. Some are embroidered in raised
designs with linen threads, while oth
ers are made in severe tailor fashion.
The beauty of the embroidery robes
really beggars description. In former
seasons Individual gowns were built
at enormous expense, but no such offer
ings of such highly artistic designs
have been displayed in the shops as
now. Of course, If counted as wash
gowns, these new models are expen
sive, but they are really not supposed
to be washed; rather they are cleaned
by a peculiar process which makes
them ns fresh as new without going
in the water.
Both light and heavy linens are deco
rated in this way, but the latter are
less costly. The open work embroidery
suits better the heavy Holland weaves.
It might be well, too, to add for the
benefit of the woman with a limited
dress allowance that the cheaper em
broidered robes are padded to gain
the raised effect, says the Brooklyn
Times.
Sl retry r
A striking gown of Parisian design
ing is of heavy and rich white satin.
One sees plenty of shepherd's plaid
traveling gowns.
A new shoe is an Oxford tie With a
projecting sole and a high Cuban heel.
The smartest linen coat suit is made
with a short, pleated skirt and a box
coat.
Many varieties of lawn and lace un-dor-sleeves
are sold to wear with short
sleeves.
The newest lingerie hat is a heavy
linen sailor, the linen stretched over a
straw foundation.
For short Journeys nothing Is better
than heavy linen, blue, brown, dull
pink, or even white.
Practically, all sleeves are short,
cither elbow-length or terminating sev
eral inches above the wrist.
Leghorns, sewn tuscans, rice straw,
and tinted mnnilas are the shapes on
which tulle most frequently figures.
The thinnest of blouses may be worn
under the loose coats and white canvas
or black or tau leather ties may be
worn.
The small turban has created the
fashion of elaborate hair built to suit
the hat, but now comes in another
vagary of millinery.
A very handsome traveling gown of
brown chiffon taffeta had a skirt and
long coat of the silk, and a blouse of
coffee colored embroidered batiste.
A very handsome traveling gown of
brown chiffon taffeta had a skirt and
long coat of the silk and a blouse of
coffee colored embroidered batiste.
Violets trimmed a white chip, a sort
of a platter-shaped affair, with the
rolled brim lined with black tnlle.
There were three bnnches of violets
placed a little to the left of the front.
Skirts grow wider and wider. Even
the moderate ones are sow at least
five yards araund the hem, while eight
are not too many to be considered for
skirts of thin material. .
risca
,tOV HE farmers of the United
States are watting up to
O a tact 01 great econuum:
p Importance and one which
wiir means many uoiiars in
their pockets the preservation of the
birds.
Year by year with one hand they
have paid out millions of dollars for
insect destroyers, while with the other
hand they have waged wanton aud
cruel warfare upon the birds, often in
sport, but more often in the ignorant
belief that the featbeord tribes were
thieves and vnrlets, whereas they were
and have always been tho true allies
aud co-workers of the agriculturist.
Indeed, experts say that were there
no birds farming could not bo carried
on at all, and that if the ranks of
the bird folk had not been so fright
fully thinned by the destroyer many
thousands of dollars less would now
have to. come out of the farmers' pock
ets for Insect poison.
According to these authorities, one
tenth of all the products of the field Is
now destroyed by Insects, of which
there .are said to be more than 100,000
varieties In the United Stales, most of
them enemies to the farmer. It Is
estimated by entomologists that In
sects wreak $200,000,000 worth of
havoc annnnlly to the crops of this
country. When It Is understood that
one bird will destroy yearly 2100 In
sects, no further nrgumrnt Is needed to
make the farmer respect and cherish
an ally so valuable and useful.
Hitherto most tillers of the soil only
saw one phase of the bird question.
They saw the birds eating a few cher
ries In the orchard or picking up a few
grains of corn or wheat, and that was
enough. They were all set down ns
thieves and parasites. But now the
farmer Is coming to see that the deni
zens of the air derive by far the largest
portion of their food from lnsec.ts,
beetles, bugs and the seeds of weeds.
It Is lurgeiy due to the Audubon so
cieties scattered throughout the States
that the farmers' eyes are at InJl being
opened to the true state of affairs. Ac
cording to William Dutcher, chairman
of the National Association of Audu
bon Societies for Protection of Birds,
every bird in this country has its dis
tinctive nnd special work to do.
"First of all," he says, "there are
birds, like the night hawks and whlp-
poonvllls, that glean Insects In the
air at dawn nnd sundown, nnd swal
lows and flycatchers that glean In the
air during the daylight hours. Then
we have the sparrows and doves that
help the farmer by eating weed seeds;
and. furthermore, nature has provided
large numbers of birds of different
kinds that clean the leaves of trees
from all sorts of Insects. These are
represented by the wood warblers nnd
orioles nnd chickadees. Then the
woodpeckers and creepers nnd to some
extent the chlckndees also watch over
and care for the trunks nnd limbs of
trees, cleaning out from the cracks and
interstices In the bark all the eggs of
insects that are In many cases too min
ute for the human eye to see.
"Prof. Forbush, of the Massachusetts
Department of Agriculture, has stated
publicly that the value of n chickadee
to an apple orchard Is beyond computa
tion, and yet the foreign laborers In
this country will kill, without n second
thought, n chickadee or any other bird
whose value to agriculture Is simply
inestimable. No part of the foreign
population Is more relentless toward
the birds than the Italian and Polish
laborers. In Italy there are no bird
laws, and there is perfect liberty to
siay anything nnd everything In the
feathered line. The Italian laborers
here, who are largely laborers, having
known no bird laws In their own coun
try, are slow to recognize ony here.
They kill the birds for food, nnd any
thing with feathers on it Is their prey.
They give more actual trouble to the
Audubon Society than all the rest put
together, for native Americans seldom
kill small birds, although the boys
sometimes go bird nesting.
"To return to the economic value of
birds, Giflrd Flnchot, chief forester
of the United States, in one of his
late reports, states that boring beetles
and other forest-destroying Insects de
stroy forests to the value of $100,000,.
000 a year, and a very conservative
estimate of the loss to general agri
culture through insect ravages Is
?1200.000,000 more yearly.
"The Audubon societies are Incor
porated and fully organized bodies who
are working from two different stand
points. Some of them tnke up the aes
thetic side of tho question nnd protect
the birds because of their beauty of
plumage and song. But by far the
greater number of the Audubon people
are working from n purely economic
standpoint, trying to preserve the birds
of the country because these keep In
check the Insect and rodent pests that
militate 40 the extent of many mil
lions yearly against the labors of farm
er and forester.
"As an illustration of tho value of
land birds, a few Interesting facts are
suggestive. ' The night hawk, which
catches Insect? on the wing, has an
enormous stomach. Grasshoppers are
an important article of Its diet. The
stomach of one night hawk was found
to contain remains of sixty grnsshop
pers, while another's stomMi con
talned thirty-eight, mostly entire. Yet
this useful bird Is often killed for food
and still oftener a a target for gun
practice on the wing. .
"Again, take the mourning dove,
which Is common In New .lersey. This
bird, if allowed to live, will save the
farmer much labor with boe nnd cut
tivator, for its habitual and almost
only article of diet is the seeds of
weeds. These it eats at aU sasons of
.MOM
It
the year, and as mnny as 9200 seeds,
most of them noxious weeds, have been
found In the stomach of one of these
birds. One meal of three of these
doves is equal to the destruction of
more thnn 23,000 weeds.
"Few birds are more vs.lunble to the
farmer than the meadow lark. Nearly
three-fourths of its food is made up of
grasshoppers, bugs and beetles, twelve
per cent is weed seeds and only fifteen
per cent, is grain. This grain, more
over, is mostly gathered from the stub,
ble fields during the early spring and
winter months. Besides army worms
and cutworms, the meadow lark is
death to the chinch bug, which In the
last half century has destroyed grain
In the United States to the value of
more than $330,000,000. Accurate study
has shown that the Idea of the meadow
lark being n wheat-eating bird Is er
roneous, nnd It is now protected by
law In all but eight Southern Slates."
MiMlnir the Trnltl.
To have a guest at breakfast Is smart
quite London like. But there nre
qualifications upon the enjoyment of
his society In suburbia. The morning
meal Is only too likely to begin on such
an occasion two minutes later than
usual. Tho extra one minute nnd
thirty seconds spent on the grape fruit
moves the clock hand forward at a
dangerous clip. We're seven behind
the game at the end of the oatmeal.
The bacon appears simultaneously
with the chugging automobile outside.
With the coffee half consumed In the
cups the practiced ear of the commuter
notes that the train is already pulling
out of the station three miles up the
road. There's nothing else for it.
"Say, old man, suppose you tell me tho
rest of the story on the train. You
know you said you must be In town by
0 o'clock. I'll retell It to Prlscllln this
evening." Yet they miss the train
after all.
Home Oriel Cnntnnu.
It Is unlawful In Norway for women
or gitis to serve in public houses.
In Spain, street performers on the
guitar nre licensed, while organ grind
ers are rigorously suppressed.
The pupils in Mexican schools who
have been perfect In their lessons nre
nilowed to smoke cigarettes after the
recitations.
A curious custom still holds good In
the village of Wnddesdon, In Bucking
hamshire, England, where, on any
morning n person can claim . a free
drink of new niiik from a cow specially
kept for the benefit of thirsty wayfar
ers. This animal Is known locally ns
tlie "alms cow," nnd when she dies an
other has to be provided by the war
den. Maine's Metropolis In Massnrhusettp.
It surprises most Maine people to
learn that Maine's largest city Is lo
cated In Massachusetts, nnd yet this
condition of thing Is figured out by the
promoters of tlie new State of Maine
Club, which is making suchn prosper
ous beginning in Boston. They say
that in what is known as Greater Bos
ton there are now living over 50,000 na
tives of Maine, while, according to the
last census, Portland, which most of
us have regarded as the largest Maine
city, had only 35,000 natives of Maine.
Of course, figures cannot lie, nnd still
it will not come easy to us to speak of
Boston ns the largest Maine city.
Kennebec (Me.) Journal.
Talnnble Stamp.
Two stamps were once put Into an
offertory box by a lady in Georgetown.
They were two-cent stamps, issued in
British Gulann in 1S50. The lady had
come ncross nn envelope among her
papers bearing two of these stamps.
The incumbent. Canon Josa, sold the
envelope with the two stamps on It by
auction, and it realized $1000. The
following year tlie same two stamps
changed hands at $3."0. The new pur
chaser sold them for $3000 to a Ger
man dealer who sold them to a Rus
sian nobleman for fSOOO.-Fhiladelphla
Ledger.
Women'! llnnU Larger.
"Tlie fondness of women for outdoor
sports Is having Its effects on their
hands," said a Twenty-third street
glove denier. "We make a woman's
No. 0 glove materially larger than we
did five years ngo, but the woman who
wears n No. C glove doesn't know It.
She is satisfied with the figure on the
stamp. Some women don't care. But
there nre mnny who would drop tennis
and golf like hot potatoes if they
thought It made their hands larger."
New York Press.
The Newest War Bonnets.
The state militant of the world Is
affecting the headgenr of women and
children. The George Washington and
Napoleon styles are omnlprescent. A
tot of two or three looked positively
portentous In the defiant shape of hat
worn by the great Emperor, and tha
mild mannered old ladles become jaun
tily aggressive in the Colonial style.
The psychological question is. Does
the hat cause the mental state or does
the mental state cause the hatj
Civilisation and the Kaffir.
On bare feet, of which the skin grew
so tough as to enable' him to run over
the sharpest rocks without flinching,
the old Kaffir could easily walk as
fast as a horse trots, fifty miles a
day; tho Kaffir who still goes bare
foot can do so to-day. He used like
wise to be able to get a light the
"boy" who Is constantly bothering one
now for matches by rubbing two
sticks together; now he is as helpless
In the dark as ourselves. Pall Mall
Gazette
"Ain't you got anything smaller?"
demanded the conductor, us be hung
n to the car with his toes, and scowled
it the bill. He spoke through a mouth
ful of transfer slips.
"Smallest I've got," said the passen
ger, lying cheerfully. "Don't you give
me all nickels." The conductor sidled
(long the footboard with speed, and
with the motion of a crab, and snt upon
the back rail of the car. He had
Huffed the bill in his pocket. The
passenger looked over his shoulder sus
piciously. After a few blocks he be
gan to get uneasy, and three blocks
farther on he also sidled along the foot
board. -
"Where's my chnnge?" he demanded,
rhe conductor eyed him coidly
"What chnnge?" he made answer.
"Why, I gave yon a $10 bill away
hack there," said the passenger, vague
ly, "and I want my change. I get off
ft the next corner." Here the conduc
tor saw n woman trying to stop the
:ar by pulling on the cash register cord,
aud hurriedly stopped tho car. He
walked along to assist her, while the
man wJio owned the $10 bill loped
along behind iiini, saying things.
"What was that about a $10 bill?"
Inquired the conductor after the car
had been started. The man hopped up
and down In a frenzy.
"Here, yon," he shouted, "I'm past
my corner now. Gimme my change, or
that bill. I want to get off." The car
whizzed past the next corner.
"Gimme my bill and stop the car,"
howled the passenger. The conductor
took n roll of bills from his pocket,
looked it over calmly, and then took a
handful of small chnnge. out of his
breeches' pocket and carefully and
painstakingly counted out $'.).95, which
the passenger grabbed and leaped from
the car.
"He had a nickel," grinned the con
ductor. "I seen him look at a lot of
small change before he gimme that
bill." Dallas News.
Toll In Pantomime.
Theodore Thomas, In conducting nn
orchestra, seemed impassive, imper
turbable. A writer in the Outlook,
commenting upon this, says that he
was apparently without passion or
feeling. Yet the appearance was not
reality, and nt one of Mr. Thomas' re
hearsal it was fully contradicted.
At a certain point in the symphony
the orchestra was playing in perfect
time and tune, but with n certain
mechanical effect which no one had
noticed until Mr. Thomas suddenly
rapped the music stand before him.
The orchestra stopped. Then with
his hand he Imitated the action of an
organ grinder.
With only a word to indicate the
bar at which the orchestra was to
take up the music, he struck the rack
before him for attention, nnd with a
movement of his baton gave the sig
nal. The orchestra repeated the passage
he had criticised by dumb show, and
this time they played with spirit nnd
lire.
Mimn ot Illin.
"Where hr.ve you been?" asked Mr.
McGruff, as his wife came In the draw
ing room all excited.
"Why, I have been down to the gen
ealogist's," she replied, proudly, "and
he has traced my ancestors back a
thousand years. Here Is the list. You
will notice that after some of thetn
stands the letter 'P.' "
"H'm! What does that stand for?"
"Why, either poets or painters."
"You don't say? I thought perhaps
It stood for pirates or pedlers." Chic
ago News.
Absentmlnrief.
Having finished his meal, the absent
minded professor got up, put on his
hat, and was starting away when he
found himself confronted by the bow
ing waiter.
"Ah," said the professor, grasping
and heartily shaking the outstretched
hand, "very glad to have the pleasure
of meeting yon again, sir very glad,
L.tleed. I remember your face dis
tinctly, but ah I must confess that
your name has escaped me." Chicago
Record-nerald.
About Antn.
Now fads concerning those intelli
gent Insects, the ants, are still coining
to light. That they keep aphides ai
we do cows, In order to milk them, and
that they have slaves, was discovered
long ago, but now we hear of a South
American variety making flower gar
dens in the tops of trees. The gardens
or baskets contain certain plants
which are duly tended by the ants, nnd
the insects plant the minute seed?
whence the plants spring.
The Physical III of Temper.
Would you be well? Then control
your temper. Do you not know that
fits of passion, this giving way to the
worst that is In you, does you not only
moral and mental, but actual physical
harm? Temper invariably Interferes
with the process of digestion; it carves
ugly lines on your fuces; it wears upon
the tissues, nnd leaves us physically
and mentally exhausted, as well as
morally weaker after each Indulgence.
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Teaching- EnglUh. ,
Young men in China who have some
smattering of .English are opening
what they -call Anglo-Chinese schools
In Shanghai and neighboring towns.
One of these schools frankly adver
tise Its limitations: "English taught
is far as the letter G." Missions Bulletin,.
WHEN MOTHER TAKES THE
STOCKING-BAG.
When mother takes the fatocking-bag we
children gather round,
For she's the jullieat mother anybody ever
found.
She sits and rocks and darns the socks and
tells us tales that day.
I think you'd like to be there on stocking-
darning day!
"Now, once upon a time" that's how she
starts the story going
And Bub threads darning-needles and Jen
taxes up some sewing,
And Ted plays with the sei
scissors, but I
don t do a tiling
But look and look at
mother and sit
a-listening.
Most times they're 'bout the time when she
was just a little girl,
With pinafores and sunbonnet and many
a little curl,
A regular tomboy, mother uays, a-tearing
round the farm,
And climbing trees nnd jumping off the
big beam in tlie barn.
And sometimes they're 'bout Indians nway
otf there out West,
And Bob and Ted and me I guess we like
that kind the best.
And sometimes they're 'bout kings nnd
queens who lived so long ago,
Jen says it's history dressed up, und I be
lieve that's so.
We children wear our stockings out at a
tremendous pace,
So mother says, that smile of hers nil shin
ing in her faee;
But we are glad when the stocking-bag is
full as it can be.
For good times go with darning, don't you
see?
Harriet Crocker Leroy, ia Youth's Com
panion. TEDDY'S FIRST POCKETS.
"I want pockets In my new pants,"
said Teddy.
"You are too little," said mamma.
"Please, mamma!" Teddy pleaded.
"Pockets go with pants. All the big
boys have them."
"Well," mamma replied, "I suppose
you must have them. Yes, I will put
some In."
"Nonsense!" exclaimed Aunt Emily.
"Clara, you don't mean to let that baby
have pockets? He will have them full
of rubbish and In a dreadful condition
all the time. He's too little for trous
ers, to say nothing of pockets."
But mamma put the pockets in, nnd
Ted was happy. He went round with
his hands In those little snuggeries,
felelng very proud nud grown-up, and
trying to whistle; and by nnd by he
began to put things Into them.
"It I had the darning cotton, I would
mend the stockings," said grandma,
"but It isn't In the basket."
"Here it is," said Teddy, taking a
PICTURE
WHERE
little black ball out of his right pocket.
"I found It behind the door, grandma.
I didn't know It win darn cotton; I
thought It wns just string."
"You didn't happen to find my pencil,
did you?" asked sister Sue. "I lost It
yesterday and I can't find it any
where." "Yes," said Teddy, "it was In the
waste basket. I picked It ont and p.it
It in my pocket. I didn't know it was
yours, Susie," he sold as he passed It
to her.
Tretty soon mamma could not find
her thimble. "I tad It this morning,"
she said, "and all nt once I missed it.
I am sorry, for It was the one you gave
me, Emily."
"Here it Is," said Teddy. "I found It
down in the pnnsy bed. I meant to
give It to you, but I forgot."
"It must have, fallen off the wlndow
slll," said mamma. "I remember now,
I was sitting by the garden window."
That afternoon sister Mary asked me
If anybody had seen a button, for she
had lost one off her blue dress; Tom in.
quired if anybody had run across bis
Jack-knife, which he was using at noon
and mislaid; Johnny needed a piece
of string In a hurry; and grandpa could
not .find a little nail. All these things
Ceddy produced as they were wanted..
"I take it all back, Tsd," said Aunt
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Emily, laughing. ' "Your pockets cer
tainly are the most useful ones In the
family. You don't happen to have a
box of chocolates, do you?"
"No," Teddy replied, soberly, "but I
have some candy that Isn't chocolate.
Mr. Smith gave it to me. It's taffy."
Aunt Emily lnnghed again. "There,
Clara," she said, "I told you so!"-EIiz-abeth
Hill, in Youth's Companion.
LITTLE TRIALS. .
There was once a floor cleaner In the
pnlnce of a sultan, who quarreled with
and grumbled to a workman who had
come to mend n step. It took a good
while properly to finish the work, nnd
this annoyed tlie sultan who every day
had to pass through the room where
tlie step was being mended. The sul
tan complained of the annoyance and
the floor cleaner said he didn't see how
such a great sultan could be put out
by such n little thing. The sultan
heard of tho remark and sent for the
floor cleaner, who greatly fenred that
the remark would cost him his head.
He was greatly surprised when the
sultan told him that he would give him
a palace, money, servants, horses,
every luxury that n man could desire,
all upon one condition. Tills condition
was, that every day of his life he would
come to the sultan's palace and receive
n slight tap on his cheek, this tap to
be administered by the sultan himself
or one of his servants. The first time
tlie floor cleaner complained he was to
be thrust back Into his original poverty.
As the years went on this man grew
rich and powerful, nnd finally It be
came a great trial for him to present
himself every day at the palace nnd re
ceive a tap on his check. This was
especially trying ns his flatterers and
servants sympathized with him and
told lilm It was a shame that so great
a man should be subject to-such an
insult. This became the trial of his
otherwise happy life. Ho felt that he
could no longer endure It. One day the
sultan was ill, and his cook wns sent
for to administer the tap to the floor
cleaner. The floor cleaner flew into a
violent rage and hammered the cook In
the face until tho sultan appeared.
When he saw what had happened, he
condemned the floor cleaner to bis
former poverty saying, "You now see
how 'even a little trial may become a
great cross If one has always to bear
it." Indianapolis News.
AN INTELLIGENT nORSE.
In the city of Oakland, Cal., lived a
JPUZZLE.
WILLIAM TELL'S SON?
Brooklyn Doily Eagle."
few years ago a horse as beautiful, in
telligent and affectionate as ever a
horse could be. "Prince" was his name,
and well it fitted him.
The readiness with which he under
stood what was said to him was re
markable, says Our Dumb Animals.
"Prince," his mistress would say, "I
would like to visit Mrs: Y ," and, as
Mrs. Y was a particular friend of
his, Prince would trot most readily and
rapidly to her house. Again, Miss
C would tell him to go to the bank
for money, and tilery he would go; or
to the stable where oatc, bran and bay
were to be ordered, and he would trot
there at a lively rate.
He was always spoken to exactly
as a person would have been. Once a
lady who was riding with Miss (2
was surprised to have him take her
home and stop before the bouse.
"Oh, Prince," she said, "won't yon
give me a little longer ride?"
He shook a knowing head and raced
around the block twice, stopping then
as before, as if to inform her that the
trip had been of a reasonable length.
No end of little incidents of a like
nature might be related of blra.
Mrs. Thurston's successful novel,
"The Masquerader," is being trans
lated into Swedish, Norwegian and
Danish.