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CHILDRENS COLUMN Vp Ho High. In the tree-tops, in the tree-tops, Up so higa, up so high, . A little bird sat chirping When the spring flitted by. An I she built as nice a nest there As ever you did spy. In the tree-tops, in the tree-tops, Up so high, up so high, A little bird sat waiting When summer flitted by. Bo happy after teaching Her little ones to fly. In the tree-tops, in the tree-tops, Up so high, up so high, A little bird sat singing When autumn flitted by. Then she fle\/ away so swiftly To the South, i wonder why? -Chicago Record-Herald. Coal Girls of Japan. Young girls in Japan are employed to perform a task which cannot be done in the same time and with the same ease by any other body of work folk in the world. . They are engaged at the different ports In loading the large steamers with coal. The coal barges are swung alongside the vessel, from stem to stern of which is hung a series of platforms, the broadest nearest the base and diminishing as they rise. On each of these platforms a girl stands. Men on the barges fill baskets con taining about two buckets of coal each and pass them to the girl standing on the lowest platform. She passes them to the girl above her, and a continuous and unbroken line of baskets passes into the vessel from 10 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon. The girls will handle from 60 to 70 baskets of coal a minute and over a thousand tons of coal a day. This really arduous toil they perform as if it were mere play, for they keep up a running fire of jokes, and their laughter is continuous. ' tey often break into a song, the notes of which are clear, melodious and stimulating. A Little Wasbincton. One day in spring Geordie found a tiny cherry tree growing in a corner of the grounds. When he t old papa about his "find," papa said he might have that tree for his very own. How proud Geordie was of his tree. He watched it closely that spring, wa tered it several times a day, and tried to wait patiently for the cherries to come. Papa laughed some times and said: "You don't give your 'baby' a chance to grow, Geordie." Soon the "baby" was covered with tiny blossoms and Geordie knew that that meant cherries by and by. He ran In to tell Momsie: "Bushels and bush els of cherries, Momsie, and every sin gle one of 'em for you!* "Dear me!" said Momsie "I should get sick eating all those cher ries, Geordie. You'll have to help me." And Geordie hugged her anl promised that he would. But a week later a big storm cam?, and the ground beneath the little tree was strewn with torn petals. Geordie 'most cried when he saw it. "Only one branchful of flowers left, Momsie." But that one branch danced, in the warm breezes, and pretty soon the blossoms fell off of themselves, and Geordie could see the little, hard, green cherries there. "I counted 15 cherries, Momsie, tru ly I .did. It ain't-I mean it isn't so many ns we thought/' he said dolt~ fully, bnt soon he brightened up again; "Well, you can't get sick eating wily 15 cherries, Momsie." Just then Harr id Conklin came over to play, bringing his fireman's suit and his red express wagon. "Let's play fire," said Geordie, "and the trees can be the burning houses." "All right," said Harold. He usu ally did say that to everything Geordie proposed. ^S* So off dashed the cxpress^'wagon, drawn by two prancing .feorses, and drew up before a burnJ?g barn, near the "baby" tree; but io you or me the barn would have looked like an old stump. There the firemen alighted and swarmed up to che top of the blazing building. "We can xihop this rotten old stump if we. like," said one brave fireman. "Papa's going to cut it down some day." "All right," replied the other. So Geordie and he hacked away until Geordie, with one sharp blow, broke off a great limb, which went crashing down almost on top of Harold. Now, I don't know how it happened, biit the falling limb crashed through the "baby" tree, and the dear little branch that bore the cherries was split off close to the trunk. Poor Geordie. He threw himself on the grass and cried a?d cried, till Har old, after vainly trying to comfort him, ran home very much frightened. Still Geordie lay there, till at last somebody came and took him in her lap, shaking with sobs, and said: "Don't cry so hard, dearie. Moosie is sorry that Harold broke your little tree, but papa will give you another, and next year there will be two trees full of cherries." Then Geordie's sobs ceased and he lifted up Lt* head bravely. "But, Momsie, it wawn't Harold that brok,? my 'baby.' It was me-" he choked, then went on-"I chopped the old stump-it was a barn, you know-and it fell-and broke my troc all to pieces -so I mustn't have 'no .her tree 'causo I broke this one." And to Geordie's surprise, Momsie hugged him tighter and kissed him and called him her "brave little Wash ington." So Geordie waited another year for his cherries, but next time the "baby" tree was loaded down, and Mo:jsie really did have "bushels and bushels" of cherries, all that she could eat Brooklyn Eagle. The Chipmunk. As we walk through the winter woods, we shall feel that they are less deserted if we remember that many of the creatures which added so much to the Interest of our summer rambles are quite close to us, even though we can neither see nor hear them. In this hollow stump, a family of flying squir rels are sound asleep; beneath that grcat'tree trunk, bright colored snakes are colled round each other In a ball which would fill a water pail. In tho side of the hill, there, a pair of wood chucks are curled up and wrapped in deepest slumber, and among the damp leaves and earth with which they blocked the entrance to tbeir burrow, a great, green frog squats, waiting for tilt spring. But a prettier creature than any of these is the little chirping squirrel, or chipmunk, whose burrow is under that old fence, and who, with the rest of his family, Is now lying suug and warm In a nest of leaves and grass perhaps 10 feet from the entrance. i ha?e heard the chipmunk referred to ns "tho painted squirrel," and cer taiuly no other of our little fur beareri is more beautifully marked than he. His back is brownish gray, with seven longitudinal stripes-five of them black and two oi them of a yellowish tinge. There is a small black ?pot above his nose, his forehead is orange, and his underparts are white. Or isionally al binos are seen, and now and then one is found which is jet black. The body i?; rather slender and graceful in its curves, and the tail only moderately bushy. All the feet are delicately formed, the hind ones having five toes and the front ones four toes and the rudiment of a thumb. The most interesting thing about the mouth of the chipmunk is the fact that he has two cheek pouches, one on either side, each with an opening be tween tue incisor and molar teeth. These pouches are his market baskets, and in them he can carry the nuts, seeds and berries on which he feeds. He is a very agile l?tele fellow, and of a playful disposition. From early spring until the fall he may be seen in almost any New England wood, scampering in and out of the walls and stone heaps, ci sitting on a stump near the entrance of his bur row, eating a cherry pit or a hazel nut As one watches him sitting there so calmly he seems to have his mind cn nothing but what he is eating, yet another step may be clough to send him squeaking to the farthest corner of his underground retreat. He is not a tree climbs; that is to say, he doesn't care fui climbing; but if he is surprised away from home he will often dash up a tree for several feet and hang there, with his body pressed close to the trunk, until the danger is over. But he looks most un comfortable, and is doubtless very glad to get down again. The chipmunk usually makes his burrow under the roots of a tree, in a bank, or beneath an old wall 01 stone heap. There is a main tunnel, often more or less winding, which contains a nest large enough to accommodate a family of five or six. From this run lateral galleries, which are used as storehouses, and into these the thrifty little fellow carries food all through the autumn and until stopped by the cold weather. Among the provisions thus stored away are hickory nuts, ha zel nuts, wheat, buckwheat, acorns and grass seeds. When out gathering these good things he stuffs them into his cheek pouches and then scampers home, looking very much like a boy with toothache on both sides of his face. He generally pauses for a mo ment at the mouth of the burrow, and then darts down into it to discharge his cargo. In a few minnies he is back again, with all the swelling gone from his face, and away he goes for another load. When carrying hickory nuts he has been observed to bite off the sharp ends before putting them into his pouches. When the cold weather sots in he re tires to his snug nest, aud through the winter, when hunger prompts him, he goes into the storehouse for refresh ments. The galleries no doubt also afford him an opportunity to stretch his limbs and take a little exercise occasionally. He evideni'y makes al lowance for very long winters, as there is often a good deal of food left over when the warm weather comes again. On sunny afternoons in the latter part of February and the beginning of March, the chipmunk comes out for _a breath of fresh air, _ua to sun him - ^e^iia=aflcid^ hour or so. As the weather gets warm er he stays out longer, until by and by he is out all day long. The young, four or five in number, are usuaj?y born in May. There is probably another litter late in the sum mery These little fellows make very beautiful, gentle peta If kept in con . finement, however, they should have plenty of room, and constant care ls required to keep them happy and in good health. They should never be kept at large where there are cats or dogs, for sooner or later they are sure to be killed. A beautiful squirrel 1 had not long ago skipped j-way from me as I was feeding it, and it was killed by a cat before I had a chance to move in its defence. The chief enemy of the chipmunk is the white weasel. Hawks and owls, foxes, minks and wildcats all prey upon him whenever they get the chano, but once in his burrow he can set all these at defiance. The weasel alone, with his long, snaky body, can follow him to the very end of his tunnel, and in a few minutes can kill him and ali his family by biting through their Bkvlls. Chipmunk hirut/if catinot be held up as a saint, for ho is vary partial to birds' eggs and fonder still of young 1 ?rds. Perhaps il is just as well that his climbing pow-;;s are no tetter than they are. It i? that fa.it alone which prevents him from being as great a rascal as th? led squirrel.-Ernest Howard Baynes, in Hartford Times. With tho Tirte. "Few people have any idea of how fast the tide runs or of how far it will carry an object in a very few hours," said the Captain of one of the Dock Department's steam launches. "Not very long ago a raft of forty or fifty piles broke up and went adrift one night at the foot of East Twenty fourth street. As these piles cost all the way from $8 to $220 apiece, they were worth chasing, so just as soon as the loss was discovered in the morning I started out. "Thc search continued down the East River and along the Brooklyn side through Buttermilk Channel, but without results. Over on the south shore of Governors Island we found eight or ten of the missing sticks. We ran along down by Bay Ridge, and had about decided to abandon our efforts, when we reached Fort Hamilton. But we thought we might as well make a good job of it, and a little way fur ther on, just beyond the Narrows, and around on the north side of Gravesend bay, we found about half of the wayward piles. They had trav eled down there, a distance of about ten miles, on one tide, and I thought at the time that it is small wonder that so many drowned bodies are nev er recovered in these parts."-New York Times. The Sins of the rather*. "Do you think the sins of the fath ers are visited on the sons?" "Well, I don't know. Sometimes -when I see and read about the sons of some of our great men it strikes me that if they are proof of that doctrine their dads must have been pretty bad men."-Chicago Record-Herald. The Snndpnper Tree. The sandpaper tree grows In the forests of Uganda, and has leaves which for their roughness resemble a cat's tongue. This rasping quality ls very useful, as the natives employe the leaves in polishing their clubs and j apear handles. Sayings of the Little Folks. Little Margie-Does a body have to pay to get into heaven? Johnny-Yes; you have to be good. Life is Growing Longer. Prom statistics and certain changes in our method? of living, it has been proven that life is being steadily lengthened. We are justified in believing thia when wp conBider tho great advance made in medicine during the past fifty yeare, the most noteworthy of them being Hostetter'8 Stomach Bitters. This ideal medicine cures headache, sour stomach, belch ing, hearthburn nnd indigestian, also steadies the nerves, induces eound sleep aud prevents malaria, fever and ague. Bo sure to try it. The sign painter, at least, can always make a name for himself. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bot tie and treatise free Pr. B. BL ExrSE, Ltd., D31 Arch gt?, Phila. Pa. Greek fire was probably made of bitu men, sulphur, naphtha and nitre. MnulVinslow's Soothing: Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, ouras wind colic. 25c a bottle. Wow they are using a grass-cutting au tomobile in the West. Pilo's Cure is tho best medicine we ever used for all affections of throat and lungs.-Wie 0. EKDSLEX, Vanburen, Ind., Peb. 10,1900. Gold pens were first made in 1840. Their sale to-day is 1,500,000 a year. A Ch ri otitia s Philosophen He asks throe great gifts-Health, Wealth and Happiness I Then give him Garfield Tea, it brings Good Health, promotes Happiness and makes tho pursuit of Wealth possible. A married man's love doesn't grow cold so long as his breakfasts are kept warm. "About a year ago roy hair was I coming out very fast, so I bought ~ a bottle of Aycr's Hair Vigor. It stopped the falling and made my hair grow very rapidly, until now it is 45 inches in length."-Mrs. A. Boydston, Atchison, Kans. There's another hunger than that of the stomach. Hair hunger, for instance. | Hungry hair needs food, needs hair vigor-Ayers. This is why we say that Ayer's Hair Vigor always restores color, and makes the hair grow long and heavy. $1.00 a botlle. AH drurcWa. your <lru?i;ist cannot supply yon, us one dollar and we will express you a bottle. Bo sure and give the name of your nonrest express oflir-o. Address, J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mis?. 41 B. Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. Engines and Boilers Menin Water Heater*. Steam Pumps nn<l Penberthy Injectors. Manufacturers and Dealern in MILLS, Corn Mills, Feed Mills, Cot t on Gin Machin ery and Grain Separators. SOLID and INSERTED Saws, Saw Teeth and l ocks, Knight's Patent Dogs, ISlrdaall Saw ' WU and Engine Karrahn f.irarTioig.-Gtate Kart and a lull line of Mill SuppUea. Price sud quality of goods guaranteed. Catalogue 'rc hT monttoninc this naper. $8.00 one of the BU vs best made MO Lb. Platform Scales ever Sold. Well made. WILL LAST A LIFE TIME. FULL Size Platform. Catalogue free. JONES (HE PAYS THE FREIGHT). ' - BINGHAMTON. N". ?. Mothers and Daughters ! Both look well if wear thc straight Royal Wofcester Of Trv them now Bon Ti Corsets You will always wear them. Ask your denier to order what you select, if he does not keep them. Royal Worcester Corset Go. . Worcester Tito offer in oar Premium Bool ia hereby EXTENDED FOR THE I (exoopt Pres PRESENTS WILL BE delivered to us during the yea; , in? brands of our tobacco: R, J. Reynolds' 8 oz,, Sta Golden Crown, Reynolds' S Mahogany, Speckled Beauty, Early Bird, P, H. Hanes j and 0. To appreciate oar offer, the? That we are giving $2000.00 pe ory of chewers on oar trade mai tify oar best efforts to please ch being deceived by imitators. Full descriptions of P tags will be furnishet R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO G nDODQ Y NEv? DISCOVERY; ?i?? fj W% ^?T- I CS 3 qnick relief mid our^H WurHI m?*.. I00K ol te: tiiDOiiinl? : nd IO ?tn y n' treal mun Pr?*C ht. H. H. GEEEN'E Rorie, lox B At...:.... . SdRKKS Thompson's Eye Water \ POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The less luck a man has the inore he despises it. < Some smiles look as though they had been soaked in vinegar. The girl who ls never seen to fblush may have been born to blush unseren. Marriage ls tho greatest lott?ry ol life-and lotteries are Illegal. \ Slight no man because of his poverty and esteem no man becauso of his wealth. Sometimes a man is judged by ?is appearance and sometimes by hia dis appearance. Respectability may be contaglou, but folks can't always catch, lt when they want it. Bonnets are now made to matjch gowns, but, strange t? Say, no onie thinks of trying to make them rnSjch purses. ^ If a married woman knows which side of her biscuit the jam ls on, she will never repeat the fool things her husband said during their courtship. Naturally people want to bo Well for Christ mae. for nothing so promotes happiness and good ohofr. Therefore, take Garfield Te? now ; it cures all derangements of stomach, Hver. kidneys or bowels ; it cleanses thc sys tem and purines the blood, thus i.moving the causo of rheumatism, gont and many chronic diseases. It is good for young and old and has been held in the highest repute foi' many years. Physicians recommend ii. If you write thirty words a minute your pen ls traveling at the rato of 300 yards un hour. ______ PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not staia the hands 01 spot the kettle. Sold by all drug gists. _ The largest element in American popula tion is Celtic._ .100 Reward. SIOO. The reader! of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least ono dreaded dis ease that scienco has been ablo to enre in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Ls taken inter nally, acting directly upon tho blood and mu cous surfaces of tho system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of tho disease, and giving the patient strength by building up tho con stitution and assisting nature in doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faithin ita curative powers that they offer Ono Hun dred Dollars for any caBo that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F J. CHENEY <fc Cos> Toledo, 0, Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Conscience is a good deal like an alarm clock. We get so used to it that we don't mind. Eest For the Bowels. No matter what adis you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels aro put right. CASCAHETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce eahv natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CAS CAUETS Candy Cathurcic, tho genuino, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. The be6t opportunities are those we make for ourselves. Wish All a Merry Christmas! And tell them of Garfield Tea, which cureB indigestion and liver disorders and insures the return of many happy Christmas Dinners by removing the cause of dyspepsia and ill health. We may all be generous to a fault when the fault is our own. A woman's lace may be her fortune, but a man sometime, relies solely upon his cheek. Tetterlne In Texas. "I enclose 50c. in stamps. Mail me one or two boxes of Tetterine, whatever the price ; it's all right-does the work."-Wm. Schwarz, Gainesville. Texas. 50c. a box by mail from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga., if your drug gist don't iceep it. A first-class telescope costs $100,000 to build, and $90,000 to house appropriately. WE PAY R. R. FARE AND UNDER $5,000 Deposit, Guarantee BOO FREE SCHOLARSHIP!*. BO Alt D AT C08T. Write Qulok to OA.-ALA. BUSINESS COLLEGE, MACON, OA. :NTIRE YEAR OF 1902 eut No. 12o'' GIVEN FOR TAOS r 190a, taken from tho follow ~ [toy, R, J, R,. Schnapps, nn Cured, Brown & Bro.'s Apple Jack, Man's Pride, [ Co.'s Natal Leaf, Cntter N, T. 3e facts should bc considered : r day for tags, to fix the mew 'ks placed on tobaccos, to iden ewers, and prevent them from resents offered for oar 1 upon request to 0., WIHSTON-S?LEM, N. G. HOW TSE BIRDS TALK. SOME POSSESS QUITE AN EXTEND ' ED VOCABULARY. It Is a Mistake to Credit Thora AV ?th Anything Corresponding to Art-cuhito Speech - A Itoosier's Angry Words - Canaries Aro Seldom Good Talkers. That birds and fowls are able to talk and to make themselves under stood by each other, is a fact suffi ciently obvious. Yet their conversa tional powers are considered more or less mysterious, very little being known on the subject. Few persons have thought it worth while to study the matter, which, from the viewpoint of the student of na';ure. may fairly be regarded as of mor.- than ordinary interest. There is a scientist attached lo the Smithsonian institution, Mr. Nelson R. Wood, who has made the language of birds a lifelong study. Not only is he able to understand a good deal that birds say, but he can talk to many feathered creatures so as to make him self understood by them. He says that some birds possess quite an extended vocabulary; but he adds that it would be a mistake to credit them with any thing corresponding to articulate speech, or to suppose that they are able to cit down and converse with one another in the ordinary sense of the word. Feathered species differ very much in their talking powers. The perching birds, as a rule, have but a small vo cabulary, whereas the Avidest range of speech is found in chickens and tur keys-very likely because they have so many enemies, and must be able to utter Avarning notes, both to each ether and to their young. The turkey has a note which signi fies immediate danger overhead, and this is different from the sharp and rapid call that means imminent peril from something on the ground, as a rat, for example. A hawk seen in th? distance calls forth yet another cry. A fourth note is of defiance, a fifth of pain, and a sixth of complaint or re monstrance (as when the turkey is being driven). When feeding in an open meadow a call is uttered different from that voiced in high grass or bushes, Avhere the flock is to be kept together. There is a summons to cali together scattered members of the flock; a social note, in a manner con versational, is also peculiar; and at night the turkeys on guard have a spe cial signa). The vocabulary of chickens, accord ing to Mr. Wood, is really quite ex tensive, though many of their notes, possessing different meanings, are so much alike that thi? untrained observ er cannot tell them apart. Those u?ed for bushing the young to sleep, and far warning, arc closely similar. Most peo ple will be surprised to learn that the eA'ery-day hen has three distinct songs'. One of them she utters while seeking her nest to lay; another is a call to lier mate Avhen she is separated from him; and a third appears to signify mere abstraction-a crooning to her self while, perhaps, she is hunting for food. The rooster has a song of his own, though perhaps few persons have heard lt He uses it only occasionally. It is a low, fine whistling, and he will utter it sometimes on a dark day Avhen going to roost, or when resting in a corner by himself. There ls a lot of interesting material for study in the way two cocks oppose ^acjj^)ther^nB|ri^^ let us say, stands erect, gives a defiant chuckle, and drops one wing. This means fight. If the adversary lOAvers his tail, draAvs his wings up over his back, raises the feathers behind his comb slightly, and begins to sing like a hen, the indication is of meekness and fear, and presently he will retreat, avoiding a combat. The fighting roos ter utters a short, sharp note. The parrot has quite an extensive A'ocabulary in its native forest. As might be supposed, when it has escaped from captivity it does not forget what it learned Avhile a prisoner, and par rots released from bondage have fre quently been heard talking to their Avild companions in civilized human language. The parrot ranks high in the scale of intelligence, and unquestionably un derstands thc meaning of some of the words it utters. Mr. Wood once knew a polly that said "Good morning*' early in the clay, "Goodby" at noon, and "Guod night" in the evening It never made a mistake in these salutations nor mixed them up. Its accuracy in this regard could only be explained on the supposition that it understood the meaning of the words and had a notion of the time of day. This parrot lived next door to a house that had a squeaky gate. Long alter the gate was mended, so that it squeaked no longer, Polly would utter a shriek in imitation of the familiar sound every time it saw the lady who occupied the dwelling cross the road in its direction. Stories of this kind might be multiplied without number, going to show that parrots connect with ideas the vocal sounds Avhich they utter. The crow knows that a man Avith a gun is dangerous, and on seeing him it will utter a note of alarm. Another note is of intense fear and Avarning to the young, as if to say: "Keep still and hide." A third cry is of affection for the young, for each other, or for the bird's owner. The crow is one of the most affectionate of birds, and Avhen tamed shows many signs of love for its master. One ol' its notes is a guttural mixture of gabbling sounds, uttered perhaps when it is sitting on a branch in the woods, and apparently indicating a bubbling over of good spirits. If a crow sitting on a tree branch sccs other crows passing overhead it salutes them with a note that has a rising inflection; the passing crows re ply with a note that has a falling in flection. One thing that birds of this kind are much afraid of is a dead croAv; they think that something must have killed it and are afraid to come near lest a like fate befall themselves. Canaries arc not especially good talk ers, yet they have a great deal more to say for themseh-es than most people suppose. They have three distinct songs-one addressed to the mate, an other signifying anger, and a third to indicate pleasure. If a female be taken away from her spouse, the latter will sing madly and persistently, but it ia a sign of distress and not of cheerful ness. Then there is the companionship note, as it might ba called-a "twit, twit" of contentment-uttered as the canaries hop from perch to perch. A low cry of warning is given when something flashes past the Avindow or flies overhead. Again, there is a note of calling to each other, or to the owner. Very affectionate birds arc ca naries, though they have many family quarrels. Though "the voloe of the turtle" ls familiar in classical literature, ucit.her turtledoves ?or oilier kinds of pig^ms are good talkers. They are not very intelligent, indeed, as birds go, and they have few notes. There is a noce of mourning, another to call the mate to the nest, and a sort of "ooo" which by a slight variation is made to indi cate either anger or pleasure. "The farmyard," says Mr. Wood, "is the place to study the talk of feath ered creatures, and if you wish to un derstand something about it, the best thing to do is to associate familiarly with the chickens and the turkeys that are the everyday companions of human beings."-Rene Bache, in the Saturday' Evening Post. NOT HIS LUCKY DAY. The Commissary Culled the Boxeur A Hero, but Locked Him Up Over Nigh!'. One evening, late, Jean Loqueteux decided that it was time to go home. By that he. meant a bench under a chestnut tree on the Place d'Anvers, where had slept during the last few weeks. Famished, he had only made two cents-two foreign coins at that at the entrance of the vaudeville thea tre, opening the door of a cab. "Such hard luck," remarked the poor man, talking to himself. "If I had only two sous, two sous to buy a crust of bread in the morning." Dragging painfully his ill clad per son, hungry, suffering besides from ill ness, he resumed his walk toward the bench under the chestnut tree, hoping that he would meet a providential man willing to part with 10 centimes, the price of his breakfast. Suddenly he stumbled against something in the darkness. Was it worth the trouble to look and see what it could be? Who knows? Providence has little regard for the poor, yet she is kind to them , at times; ne had found once a leg of mutton in the mud; maybe this time it was a chop. And he picked up the object. "Humph! This time I am deceived. It is no good to eat." Not one, net even a sergeant de ville, could be seen in thc street. Jean Lo queteux wont under a lamp-post to examine what he had in his hand. "Well," he said aloud, "this is fun ny." 'Ine object was a black pocketbook containing 10.000 francs in government bills, but no letters, no cards, nothing to identify the owner. "To think," he remarked to himself, "that some people carry 10,000 francs in that way in their pockets. It is enough to make any one sick. And now I have to go to the rclice station, out of my way, and I am so tired. De cidedly I have no luck tonight." And Jean Loqueteux went to the po lice station, where he experienced all kinds of trouble trying to see the commissary, on account of his dilapi dated appearance. Finally, the mag- 1 istrate consented to receive him. "M. Commissary," he said very po litely, handing the ./ortfolio, "I have found this." "And, naturally, there is nothing in it?" "Look for yourself, M. Commissary." This gentleman opened the pocket book, saw the bills, which he counted at once. "Ten thousand francs! An enormous amount of money, my friend! You are a brave man, an honest man, a hero! Do you know that?" Jean Loqueteux remained very quiet, only repeating: "To think that some people carry in that way 10,000 francs in their pockets." The commissary was considering the vagrant with more astonishment than ad?tete "And you have found this? There is no use talking, you are a hero. What is your name?" "Jean Loqueteux." "What is your profession?" "I have none." "Then I suppose you have an In come. Where do you live?" "Alas, Commissary, I am a poor beg gar; I have no residence." "What? No residence? This is as tonishing. He has no residence," re marked thc commissary. Then, ad dressing Jean Loqueteux he added: "You have no residence. Therefore you are a vagrant. You are a hero, ? evidently. Yes, you are a hero. But you are also a vagrant, and I am com pelled to apply the law. Here is the pocketbook; no doubt about that. You may receive a reward, possibly five francs, if tho owner is discovered. But this does not altar the fact that you live in a state of vagrancy. Be lieve me, it would have been much bet ter for you to find a residence than to find a pocketbook containing 10.000 francs. 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