AA ay a ARENA BA A ly rte Na ch SA nha” 120d sith clasped Jouning forms n front ry far back that the boys aid : not wp {t—there was a funny twinkle, A : last the case wis igh hd a Co Roland cate with him. boldisg his * | hand tightly, for he Intended to cling to his freind antl fhe doors of the Jail closed between thom. “Prisoner, tell the court whether you are goilty or not guilty” “Guilty.” sald Allen chokingly, sound. Could §t bo possible that they tremblingly took the s'and. you ktiow of the case.” In a little piping voles which he vain. 1 tried to make steady Roland testified | to having seen Allen take his knife sad | mutilate the sign. “You are his bost friend. are you pot? | What schooiboys ell n pal?" sald the ¥ "squire, who had known the loys since | #8 | they wers bables and was sure thire | | was something Hare than appeared on the surthes, | et think 1t rather strange | for 8 boy to betray hiv best friend?’ Roland now realized ro the nts | = BOSE the shame and degradation of hie : Position. *1 wanted the $10" be stimmered. "What do you intend tos do with 1? hat pursged the ‘squire Telenthmaly, “Bay ive and fruit and things for Allen's wick sister” And in spite of his efforts to sppear coraposet the tears : Rolled down Roland's chooks. “Ah, that ts the polot 1 wanted fo “Constable, you may take the pris 0 | oner and the witness into another room while the court and the Jury talk thls matter over.” : Totally unconscious that there wae anything unusnal about the proved Ling, Allen and Roland were led out § of the room by Constalils Carnes, whe bestowed such scowls and flashes of | his black eyes upon them that they | : were more frightened than ever. After what seemed years and years t | they Were agsio summGtied to the court r- | “Prisoner, you may stand and receive ! the sentence of the court.” thundered Or | a flerce volce. “In view of your extreme youth, the fact that it Is your first offense and also whet the court is pleased to cons ne | sider as extenuating clrennistances” eller to do anything like that" Tndigpantly. must, Real Mancaret n his of Margaret's nage ge softened perceptibly, bgt : meh a trencherans act, know you wonldo be pat kay helr elosoly inh heads | ¢ and frraiiged si the details Te tin sacrifice did not ap- g by daylight as when rapon shed a glamour len vare: © himaett hes But Roland felt ; ying his best ; Eetnsting (disgrace and {those terrible words again, thought ca | Allen with a shudder), “it bas been de. guess not. Do you think 1 cided to allow you to go five. It is expected, however, that you will never appear before the court on such a charge again” thelr astonishment the ‘squire turned i to Roland and ssid: *To you, sir, 1 now give the reward promised for the H] couviction of any person mutilating the eign” The boys had expected a groat, great big ten-doliar gold piece, but, strange {lo say, the money was composed of | quarters and D0-ceut pleces, and even and tied it securely. “Thank youn, sir,” sald Roland “Glve my lave to Httle Margaret and tell her to burry and get well” sald the "squire, and the boys thought that his volce did not sound as sharp as usual - Then, band in hand, the hoys walked Allen's gate. “Gee,” sald Roland, drawing a long feller Judas mnst have fej” hanged or sent to prison for life” said | Allen. “But let's go in now nnd show the money to mother aml Margaret, 1 And say, we might Just as wel tell & em." on ore clasping hands, they And Te the Ten se, hie Fy farome Seat he red 1 reared {| Put slew them wn mighty sword 1 The monster's A ribbon round. ita neck be hung, | Then "twas a most Jassiliar sight Pat way back n el stepped i, in the room and | | "Can yon prove any extenuating oir | { nmstaticon { Allen had never hoard of “sxtentiat- ing circumstances,” and the words as spoken bry the squire had 8 dreadful would hang him? He turned cold and | his teeth ehatiered go that he could Bot jrolys : 1 “1 "Let the witness te sworn” next | commanded the ‘squire. and Boland | “Row you may tell the court what alarm. Get a plece of ordisary willow reach,” sald the "squire, in nu terrible ir 5T. GEORGE AXD THe D OOK. worge he w 8 valiant knight, Oue Jo hue » vali badiete fell hike hail duln’s care & At just 8 an Dragon ood. w he ind "And To we Upon ite tail some salt he fang, to fpanit: oka a silver bell, To all why passed Ta soe the Dragon and the Kr Knight Upon the lawn at play. i ~¥ ong Faika Herald MURIC FROM 4 A TWIG. Tennyson in “Locksley Hall” bag the Epeaker ask his comrades to “sound upon the bugle born” when they want | bi. Few girls and boys will ever try is thelr Powers on 8 yout ole barn, Lat all can readily make a twig sound an tree (Fig. 11). Be sure it is Nasties and Jpesteet; with a sharp knife Slice Pred | bem on exhibition there before ih some time. A number of dogfish and skates 1d an angler have been captured and | brought In by fishermen. They bave | I oer placed together [i the tank on fhe #1de of the buliding opposite to the en- | trance. The dogfish Appears 10 be the | most sctive of the group. They sug- pst baly sharks as they speed abont the tank. One of the interesting things flout the dogfish Is that they bring forth their young alive in litters of half a dozen. Not wing mammals, the young, which are several Inehes long, | dre horn with egg sacks attached. From those they draw nonrishment ua. til they bave matured sufliclently to Fok thelr wa fond, Then the depleted | eg sack falls off. A dogfish was born A) the Aquariom 8 short time ago. Un- fortanaiely, ft din. The states da pot move abont the | tink ro muck as the dogfish, hut, vee Hike the angler, they do not hug the bottota all the time. They are thin aud fa The sndnistions of the fish when siviioining suggest the fving of a bird, Home of the shales are fevmed Moradoer” skates by the fSshermen | 0 ; the milter are wall educated, refined people. and ths soclpty Ix very spree bhucause of the esparaivensm of their phackion. Whos resting on fhe hLottom of the tank, as they do when no! in rostion, they Lior aut 8 Taree part of its white surface. Their eves, which are gpreriil inokies hate lk of the sharp snout, fre simost invisible, The outlet of the gills ire an top tear the syex, ey Sie closed hy alidew, which open and § slint like eyelids, The mugler fe fhe quesrest of the | 81. As every ome kpows be has the nume of angler tweants of (wo Deon- Hie appendages on his bead, which when ralaed, have the apearsnes of | tle Ssahing rode. with halt attached. Titese they sre wal! ta wes In enticing fish Into their mouths. These sppon- diugen waaay He 22 on the Back. The Bak iv shinpad much jks a bellows, thie tall being tho nomile He has an etoTinGue month in proportion to his aire. It extends Ball way across his | md. Mr. Spencer, the saperinten. | dint, in talking slwut the anzier a few Sys ago. aald hat the month of this fiih Teminged hin o a story. “Two The Missing Hunter Puzzle. Pind the huster nd bis Jog. off a slanting piece at one end (Fig 12), then cut a noteh In top (Fig. 130 wood Is pow ready to slip back into the | Before the bors could recover from some dimes, more lke the collection | taken at church than anything elee, | they thought. Reland did not stop to i question its appearance, however, hut e | emptied It Into his pocket handkerchief out, and never spoke until they reached | breath, “I guess I know low that | “And I think I ean {magne how a | really and truly thief or murderer | feels when he thinks he is going to be th to the howse~Cul. | 4 Gently tap the hark all over with oue end of 8 penknife in order to losis it from the wood, After carefully retov. ing the berk without breaking it cut the wood sccorditg 1o the dotted Vines in Plg. M4, which will give Fig. 15, The bark, but before doing this piace & pea In the hollow part (Fig. 143; then slide the bark back in place (Fig 1. Now blow the twig and sound the alarm. | The Delinsator, A CROP FAILURE The Farmer—~“What! No pertatoes growin’ on it vei? Guess I've lwen buncoed.”"—New York American. QUEER AQUARIUM FISH. The visitors to the Aquarium have ‘bad an opportunity to see specimens of Several ings. of fa which have ‘mot of the ancients in that department, from extensive reading, of the observa. ives were plaring together” be said “Ome of then, pamed “Jim” bad an un usally large month. The other sald to him: “Gosh, Jim. Als't you got & bie mouth! Iva good your ears are fadteged to tight, 1f they weren't Tour murach woold go clear ‘round, and the | toy of your head would be an sland ew York Tribune THE VME OF BUTTONS YVigitons are in extensive use in the sivirts of Geriven children, with whom | thy form a sort of coinage, esch sort | having a sii pulsted exchans bie vale, | Traces of similar passe exist In the x man New York a 4 , AE ¥ & ant In throwing battons. AG find,” whe remarked, "but | confess would be much of éivilization ov re- below sero wis unbeambly cold. I city I the Interior, Is far superior to tivo months each fall. while the river extremely high. A domed egies, when which fat surpasses any Lasker or be was 8 youtig 03a. He leaped the life, Aftur spending the greater part | A very ordinary degree of heat, such Pi sed a bole made about! Lu = av, ¢ fovt off The plavers toms their? the bole bas the five shor. He endear. Of% to drive the Botlons of the rest | into the hole, sivikioe with the 3 $ ¥ k hi thumb by a movewent of th 4 send, wehich x kent lar an} iE Ww wen bie fileses Bid turn, and so on, ever drives hae mlversa Ys Dutton indo the hole | ins ir Annther gat players " 5. Tifope pre pawt fe wall and iia player # hat. p Wathin 8 span of the adver Lic may gloss at i and win it by sir'king. as before Washington Star. BIOGRAPHY FoR In YEMILER Filny the elder was for a space pro ewmrator In Spain, He spent piveh of hix time afterward stu lving ar Rone: belag near the Bay of Naples daring an eruption of Vesuvius he Jandsd to withess the plieromenon. bat was suf. focated by the fumes. Hix “Natural | History” is a repertory of the studies | being a record. more or less falthrul, | tos af others rather than bls ow, : tog Ba the — btthaps, ad Whoever ovine Des cost = gree that fait s next takos | i pesds 10 be sustains] hy aver ih of the erg of the trophies Che. Mrs. Mullen Jecompanied du her hushand to | grows on the Yanks of the Nile equal to any in the World There ave abant 15,000,000 scves of irrigated lang { available, but fhe men 10 Wark | 48 * | lnelitng. “1 don’t k know what I expoctal to that Xt was not my idea that thore Gnemott or cnlture and | bad been tanght to belleve that fifty or eighty went theve prepared to bo a martyr and if & frontier woman, aad ready to rough ft. and I coms Domw thinking ity tha | finest opuiitry fo the world “The ellmate at Bampnrt, which ia a dnaean,. en the const, where wa are pow. ‘There is no wind at Ranypart. | and forty to fifty below zero In really not at all Beeomfortable. At that (ilace of connie wa could not pet all the cor | forte we Lave on {he coast, and for 3 freeing. and two mebths in the spring, while the stron ls breaking np. we hud to do withnot mall. Pat able. The prices Bo the fntirlor are we could pet omen at all, cost $1.00: fives pounds of susie, 81. and lestter was getventy-five conte a pound The bistliive | prefor that of Jonenn” Mex Mullen Yronght with her 4 eclv lection of gold nugurets; ales a large enjlesting of Alaskan Indian work, besdwark of the Inillans of this coun. I=y. ~Onas ha Bea, Contdns Ntand Tasting. 1a Harper's Wa Ting Fane, in Nis are ticle on “Chives and Western Ciel Zation.® tall) of a3 American who, hav. | 8 bie afrarward to endure Hi in his SWE country: “1 bat an Amertenn friend In China, | who died only 8 short time ago.” mars Mr. Wu. “The story of his life ls rath. er intereating. He went to China when Janguaye of the pountry, smd became an accomplished Chines scholur. He adapted himself to the wary and habe ita of thowp among whom be had cast his lot, and thus became ts all intents and purposes Chinese In Bis mode of of his Rife In Chion be made ap Aix mind that he would pase the remainder of his days in the land of hia hirth, among thei scenes of his childhood Aes cordingly ke left China, with no inten- tion of retursing. But he reckoned without dis host, No sooner hal he found hiniself In New York than the nolse and hostle of the metropolis of the New World desve him to dlatrae thon. He did not know which way to turn to Gad rest and quiet, and be ok the earliest opportanity to go bark to China, Thus it fa posible that a man born mind bred lo stresosus Amseries may prefor the quiet rounding of Chiza™ — : Dismands Beplode. It han long been known that Ja. monde, especially the class known asl “rose diamonds.” are lkely to explode if subjectind to only what would seem Ba RIrchDg rave from the sun eofte. It le now believed that the explosions are | the remit of the rmptd expansion of certain volatile gulls enclosed in cave | ftlew penr the centres of these precions stones. A great many damomds even though uf, mounted and worn as gema of perfection, are still In an onfinished | conditine-that is, the Uaguld drop from | which the stone is beng formed has not as yer deposited all of lex “pure! crystals of carbon” Those movable} drone nin octsionally be sean with the Baked eve When this ia the esse 8 strane milers scope will give the dren the appearance af a bulb le in the fi af a CHIN. tor's Jevel. It be alin hfichly pain hl thar besbkle the Hagnld meni Cavities 3 HES fay tai corinis mies une Sat rent dermis. Whis Bene hy ane, | me Ear endily domp YEry ul Ra BE. i: way wih all the ¢l stiniatuze it Hore oo Bros Britatns Jary-Eating Arouy. Naw teas wa Koo that the British seen} fn the Senth Afriesn war 3 B pounds of Ya, the Hers | HU west #odiie nice svmpaiations fon the | sratistion off sweetinants, For iostungs, $7 the Boltish Army, in onder to orush a comparatively small pravinets Ale thar began to wig without na army, | four million rounds of fam, quantity of fam would be peosssary for it Wr had a real war with some great military state Winld there ba fan enone iy the wrorld to meet gueh fn erisis? Ana what would becanie of the finauews of the British diupire 1 in such a ense some of the Chlcags men should Yevaner” all the Yam In the world Sust before the war begun fe Rarper'as Weekly, * ‘ : ra—— Froe Quinine For Employes, A law hus been passed in Lraly rey quiring employers of Inber to supply thelr employes with quinine free vthen suffering from malaria, : Ir many connitry villages and outot: : the way places in New England and the Middle States, women may still : fousd who make money. and even earl a ring, by spinaing aud knitting wool and. by weaving snd knliting rag save poty and rage. The demand for well cme rag rags bas notiesably revived Iateiy In some fuirie of ihe comtey. and the product of this industey finde a niady sake, The commercial value of fnformation gathered ander the antharity of the Government Is strikingly shown in the recurds kept by the Geologlon] Survey tof the Bow of sireama on fae Routh Atlantic slope. Northern expitalists, a few’ youre ago, thought that the South ern streamy wore almost valueless for walerpowsr development, bot these Previirds have shipwn their error. dod now many mills to be ran by water power are building. Tecontly at an auction sale iu Lote | den whieh was jundisionsly advertised, an erp of the ovent nuk was put vp which, afiw sine ively bidding, woe knacked down for 31000 Thar fw sald to Lea very good prices. Ba anh sue have heen sabi 0 Londen Fr 8s gel da RISE The reson Tar eRe anor. mots priven = Saiar ate to be found in the scarelly of the eggs. The bind i gxiipet aml nwt over seventy of He : : : : egos Ae iy exintanag, only difference between lieing atl Ju} = Benn and In this country 18 the ellmate, Ca Pirfare a yerpad meet iar of the Rae Jerient Saelely of Washingion My Yee non Bailey spaias of “Sider Gress and i Ite Efferta on Horses” stating that thin grass grew Jugarinitly jo seane wectlone of the (alifernia Serres. Hares enling this grass were rendered very drowsy for several dave and RB way reported thurl in sole Instances they wers tenionenriiy fon sieapy foe gE The effort gradually wars off. so 8 second time Np muccessTnl amolke-cenenming ane plianes Baw eon inventad aa yor for hotacheld me hat for indusirisl ues on i fairly large soale sokoless soft econ fires are not ausomtien, The wma kplens firndee ls pxnenyive, costing fram a few hundred dollars fo Sfeen hundred but those thar nee IT ay that the high coat is affset by the saving In the cont of fuel For nor only is the sonal price of Minminous coal only abont one-half that of anthrseite. Bot a the smokeless Turnace hurns the coal : with the minimum of waste Coal ameke In nothing tar snesnsomed cars bon ~wasted eonl set free while tie max ix heating. The Turnses has 8 med hanical stoker that foods the soul In dowry at the edge of the fire, foreing whittevir snake arises fo pass the length of the fivelox aver the glowing fire. This action x aided by a botaly blag, and almost perfect enmbustion is thus secured. There bas been 8 Inrge increase in the use of the smoke Jess furngee since the great strike he. gan, and it Ix sald that one dealer hae sold 8000, The prebaliiity ia that few of those. $f any, wil] be divearded. sad this. will inevitably afeet the dotnand for adthraciis Hand Kissing Again. Tite Parlslans are sesking to make the kissing of the Rand the most ele gant way of greeting or taking leave of 8 lady, says the Ladies” Pictorial Is is certainly more graceful and mors impressive than bandshaking. A man, if bis fa clever, may convey a great deal in the way he lingers over a hand, even when holding it in the ultra-fashion. abla m=liner, but he can silently say 8 great deal mors by the way be respects fully salutes 12 Nowadays it calls for no grace of hearing to shake Bands successfully. Ove sees men doing Bt dally with barely a glanes at the Indy whe gives than) this priviiege. Pur so ane ean kiss hands in such a coldly perfunctory | use a ami herefare 1 think that woanien In Lagden society wonkd wel CONE a Tovieal af the maetice for the maka of the eleranes 3 wonld lend the wsdern youth sb ————— Wasp's Mathod of Sttuek. Bale, in his “Naturalist in Niearse sun.” draws aftention © the methods of alack used by diferent species of Wass, One, accustomed to inhnals and not to wan, takes care to crawl wan) the suritasding lalrs to the skin betore lnserting Hs sting: while others, whith Hee 1 the midst of human dwellings, fy straight at 8 man's face, | Tie first species, true to inherited tue sting, when I attacks unfamiliar ha Han beings attaches ts to their bale or their beards. But there must have beet 3 time wien the seco] species discyiversd that the fave was the yule nevable part, amd the dvcovery wus | the uteone of the act! fein x of brain, ; Sushenl Fish, Many fish ean produces mnsieal sounds. The red gurnard has earned the nme of seacnek from the Lrowing Bolse: which It makes, while another *Pecies is called tae piper. Others, no. ably two species uf pilin. bBave souud-preducing apoaratos, consisting of sipall movable bones, which can be madi to produce a8 sharp rattle. ‘the | curieus “drumming” made by the Med. iterpanean fish known as the maigre can be beard from a depth of thirty ind ft was enid Hat heres or oktfle having eaten this grass would not do
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