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THE BEST OF LIFE. With the birth of love all life seems good, Mayhap you will sleep less sound and long, Yet the day is Ulled with the lilt of a song, ?lad you walk with a world-wide brother hood. . Winning a love? Still a bettor life. The pulse beats faster with hopes nnd fears, And the heart looks on to the happy years When she shall at last be won-and wife ! But keeping a love ! Ah ! that is best The doubting, wondering hope is past. Deep trust and truth have brought at last The perfect ??fe ol lovo and rest -Langdon Ballinger, in Good Housekeep ing. _ j Bound for Halifax, j \ * - J ^ BT M. COBBET-SEYMOUB. ^ J* Madeline Harding lay still and calm; w her face had no fear in it, no longing to grasp at life as it slipped away from ... ber. F^.e was 42 years of age, and she had known very little happiness. .: Nor had. that little come anywhere near the realization of her childish dreams. :*? On tie-whole, when she knew that her time was nearly up, she felt glad. The only regret was that she could do ] no more to help others, and that some few might miss her as a friend-until they found one In her place. The end was very near, when a re markable thing happened. A slow, fumbling footstep ascending the s'aira : . was followed by the appearance o? a j stranger in the doorway who, in a hoarse tone, and glancing at the nurse in charge, said, "I want Mrs. Edward Harding." His hair was-long and as white as snow: so was his beard. His eyes I were big and hollow and they had a harshness which made the nurse a shrink back when they fixed her with : a stare. "I want Mss. Edward Hard ing,!', said the unknown, for the second time; but without moving a step for ?: ward from the door, which a startled maid servant had thrown upon for him. "Sfye~is here," responded thc nurse. The old man turned to the bed, and his voice began to quaver as he spoke. "Mrs. Edward," he said, and his hand shcok as he laid it on the coun terpane, "it's me-the man you saved from a lot of misery! Me, Charles Brown, that swore he'd come back to prove he was grateful. Oh, you poor thing!" he added with a low sob, as light Was given him to understand that this was a dying woman, "have I come just too rate for you to know me? To be glad I've kept my word? Can't you speak to me? Can't you give me just a look out of those eyes that never turned away when I was in the \ery worst of my trouble?" But not a word came; not eveu a glimmer pf recognition flitted across that still, calm face. Then the wliite haired man sauk down on his knees by the bed. "She's dead, or next thing to it.Hrjie moaned, "and I'm too late! It's just my wretched luck. And I've come so far and I knew she'd bc glad, and now nothing matters." He tore opon a packet he had carried in his hand and a little bundle of bank notes fell jut upon the counterpane. "I was so pleased to bring them back," murmured the man, "to show her I kept my word! And now I don't care for anything." With which remark he quietly fainted, there, where he knelt, on the floor. , Tne brothers of the dying woman were-looking anxiously at him when recovered consciousness. But ho told them nothing, answered nothing that they asked, and with a dazed look -upon his face gathered the bank notes "together and replaced them in his breast pocket. Then, with a glance at 3$ the lifeless form of the woman who i i some unrevealed trouble had proba bly befriended him, he went away. He was seen at the fanerai, walking behind the mourners. Then he finally disappeared, and the little incident was soon forgetten by the very few who had kuown an>thing about it. . I was one of those few; the why and because of that fact has nothing to do with the present story. A week or two later I took the train from London to Liverpool, and on looking round the compartment at my fellow travelers, I recognized the old ?an with white hair and beard, who spoke of himself as "Charles Brown" when Mrs. Edward Harding was dy ing: His eyes were fixed upon the winslow by which he had iaken his seat, but I am certain that he saw nothing-un less, indeed, he had some mental vi sion of his own past or his future. ?After a while we two had the car riage to ourselves, except for one el derly lady whose capac'.cy for sleeping soundly through a railway journey was nothing less than astounding. I took a vacant place nearer to him, and for the sake of getting into conversation, asked where he was bound for. <?3 "Sound for Halifax." answered tho v., old juan, quietly, and then added, "for Canada, you know." "A fine country, and full of possi bilities," I said. "I have sometimes thought I should like, to emigrate." I do not think he was listening; ht bad fixed his eyes again upon the out .- side world as soon as he had answered me. After an interval I made another attempt, asking if he had ever before crossed the Atlantic. "Yes-five years ago," he ?said. "And X came back a few weeks since to find ?fte only true friend I ever possessed I But,-I came tco late." Another silence, and ; then as if moved by 'some strong and irresistible . ; impulse, the strange old man made me acquainted with his life %tory. Told brierly, it was this: He had been a small farmer, like his father before him. in one of the southern counties of England. For years all - went fairly well; he married, had chll dren, and was contented with his lot. Suddenly, and from no explainable cause, a run of misfortune set in for Charles Brown. Crops failed, times J"' were bad, his wife and the two chil ? dren died within a week of each other by,an infections fever, and at the year's end he found himself heavily in debt and on thc road to ruin. Then, like many another unhappy creature, he tried the consolation of ?^drirri, which, as a matter of course, led him from' bad to worse. Finally he re solved that to make away with his life was all that remained to be done, i "And it was she-the lady who didn't live to see I'd kept my woid-that ' saved me," he said. "I had asked one and another to give me a helping hand to get out of the country to somewhere that would open a fresh chance; but it was no Ose. One-a parson he was. too, who tuui married me and my poor Annie and baptised our chi'dron-said he never helped any bul deserving men; another had too ,.,mauy claims-he was the nobleman of *^nom I ?-ehted my farm. It w?s the same all round. No one ready to start a man aireeh, ..and that was how I WR?* td? ny mind thats as there -ii seemed no way to live, the best way out of my difficulties was lo die. So I cleared out of the old . home, selling my stick, and all that was left me, and then, with a few ciotie? done up in a bun dle and a matter of twenty shillings in my pocket, I made for the sea. It was only a walk of few miles to where the boats started to cross the channel, and I meant to takw my pas sage at night and just pitch myself overboard when I got half way." "And this lady-how did she hell you?" I asked. "I'm coming to it," answered the old man. "As I've begun, you shall heal my story to the end. A dark nigh' it was, though not stormy. There didn't seem to be many passengers and the few there were had all gone be low, or at least I thought so. 'Now'f your chance. Don't be a coward!" said I to myself, and I got away to the stern of the boat, where there was no one to look and I was just going to take the leap when I felt a hand on vay arni and saw the figure of a woman, rising up from a corner where I hadn't known there was anybody. " 'Don't be desperate,' she said in a quiet, kind sort of way. *At any rate, tell me just what the trouble is. I'll help you if I can.' "At first I wouldn't; but she began persuading me and at last I found my self telling her everything as though I'd known her all my life. " Tn your place, I would not give in without another try,' she said when I'd made a clean breast of everything, 'and I believe that for a new life there's nothing like a new country. Why not go to Canada?' " 'Because I can't,' I answered, and then I pulled out the few shillings which were all I had left after paying my ticket from Dover. 'That won't take me to Canada,' I said, 'nor to any where else that I know of. Better let me drown myself, ma'am- there's no coin wanted in the next world, I'm thinking, supposing there is a next world.' "'Oh, I can't let you bc a coward!' said the lady, and so kindly! There wasn't any quoting texts, or preaching at me. or telling me I was a miserable sinner. I expect she knew it wasn't the right moment for anything of tLat sort. 'I live just a short railway dis tance from where we shall land,' sh6 said, 'and though mine is only a little home, I have a spare room where I shall be pleased for you to sleep for a night or two while we arrange things. " T ara not rich, but in three days i could lend you enough monpy to go away to that bi? country where men like you are wanted, and are sure to get on. Will you go? When you grow rich you can pay me back.' " ."Will I go? Yes, that I will!' said I; and I felt a big lump come in my throat that choked back all the thanks that my heart was full of. "So she tool? mc to her home and made me feel as welcome as though I had been one of her own friends, and in a weeks time I was gone-with a right good will, too, lo succeed and make something better of my life." "And did y m suc'eed?" i said. "Yes. I've nothing to complain of," answered the old man. "except that she didn't live to hear all I had done. But I had paid her back before tho year was out; and in two mor;- v?ars I'd squared up every debt I'd left be hind me. And then, when money kept on coming in, I wrote to her that I was going to give myself a trip across the Dig herring pond, to show her I'd not been quite unworthy of her kiudnesr, and to ask her if there was any other fellows as unfortunate as I had been who could be set going by a few of my bank notes. But I was too late." "And now what are you guing to do?" "I'm just going back again." an swered the loan. "There's nothing else I can do. I've been reading over some of Mrs. Edward Harding's let ters-she used to write to me every now and then. And I think that's what she would advise if she could speak to me. And the money I have herp"-he touched the breast pocket of his coat "and what I can make, shall go to help thos that arc down on their luck, same as I was when she held out her kind hand to me aboard that chame1 steamer." I had taken a fancy to this Charl?-? Brown, and I lingered a day or two in Liverpool, and finally saw hun on board the ship bound for aHlifax. "I'd like a few flowers put on her grave," were his last words to me. "':? you should be over lhere, perhaps you wouldn't mint1 seeing to it. I'd like to show her just a little ol' what I feel -only somehow I fancy she. knows all about it now." "I believe she does," was my answer as we clasped hands.-Waverley Maga zine. FEARLS OF THOUGHT. You never lift up a life without be lng yourself lifted up.-Emerson. To ease another's heartache is ti forget one's own.-Abraham Lincoln. 'Tis far better to love and be poor, than be rich with an empty heart. Lewis Morris. It is ever true that he who does nothing for others does nothing for himself.-Goethe. God doesn't care for what is on the outside; he cares for what is inside. Rev. M. Babcock. Fruitless is sorrow for having done amiss, if it issue not in a resolution to do so no more.-Bishop Horne. The next time you are discouraged, just try encouraging some one else, and see if it will not cheer you.-J. R. Miller. Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it, and the farther on we go the more we have to come back.-Barrow. Kind looks, kind words, kind acts and warm hand shakes-these are second ary means of grace when men are in trouble, and are fighting their unseen battles-Dr. John Hall. rrojVnble Literary Spp?:nlatlon. Prices paid in. the book auction rooms of New York and London throw strange light on the agarics of col lectors. A fine calf uound set of the old classics is knocked down for a few cents a volume, while the first edition fiend3 boost bids into the hundreds of dollars on a tiny pamphlet of Kip ling's schoolboy verses. The man who cab guess the popular taste of ten years hence has a -chance to realize thousands on a present investment of a couple of dollars. He has only to pick out the fledgeling poet of today who will be in the first rank In 1912 and lay in a couple of copies of each of his works, not ignoring even the tiniest of pamphlets. His reward will be almost as certain as that of the real estate sharp who bought farm lands on upper Broadway in 1850. New York Press. In 1900 the output of coal throughout t?? werl<J waa atout 767,009,009 tm SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. In time past a lake existed In Swit zerland near the Marshy valley. Wit either died up or disappeared through drainage or analogous causes. Now several cantons hov? combined, and will fill the a?ds?t ?HJLSK?M "nv water from mountain Errais nu-rf going to waste near by. The head thus ob tained will amount to 600 feet, and will afford 60,000 horse power. The work will take three years to execute, and is expected to cost about eight million dollars. In a recent communication to the British Institution of Electrical En gineers, Mr. Leonard Joseph reported the following unusual occurrence: During a thunder storm a wild goose was seen to fall to the ground, ap parently directly out of the storm clods. After the storm was over an examination revealed the body of an other goose at some distance from tho first. The only wounds found upon the birds were a narrow cut on the back of the neck of one and a small puncture at the point where the neck joins the body on the other. At theso points the feathers were slightly singed. Both birds proved perfectly flt for the tablo. The Smithsonian Institution is go ing to try to trace the migratory movements of American birds by a novel method. About a million small aluminum tags are being made, and thes are to be sent to correspondents all over the country with the request that they fasten the tags round the legs of young wild birds before they are able to fly. The tags arc to bc marked and dated so that when the birds are subsequently captured or killed it can be seen how far they have ranged from their birthplace. Hunters and others will be asked io forward to Washington the tags Cram any birds so taken. Such a thorough plan has nover b?en tried before. The fact that the sun when poised on the horizon sometimes appears greatly distorted, or drawn out Into the form of an oval, is well known, and the explanation is very simple, namely, the rapid change in the re fractive index of the air near the hori on, in consequence of which the low er edge of lhe sun apepars to be lifted with reference to the upper edge, and so the disk looks as if squeezed be tween top and bottom. Recently Pro fessor Prinz of the Brussels observa tory has obtained several large scale photographs of the setting sun which distinctly show the deformation of the disk, and render its measurement very easy. In one case thc vertical diame ter Is to the horizontal in the ration of 75 to 84. Sometimes the distortion is greater than that The revelations of the spectroscope, which is capable of showing tho dis placement of stars toward or from the earth, make the starry heavens, to thc atronomer's eye, appear almost as full of mazy motions as is a ?loud of gnats dancing in the sunbeams. Every in crease in the power of observing ap paratus brings to notice new "spectro scopic binaries," which are simply double stars that cannot be separately seen, either because of their extreme closeness or because only one of them Is a shining body, t is the erratic mo tions of these wonderful stars that re veal their true character. One of the latest to be discovered is Eta Orionis, which hangs just below the belt of Orion. Sometimes this start is speed miles a second, and a few nights later lng toward the earth more t/au 40 is hurrying away with a similar ve locity. Tho Causo or the Trolloy. On one point the American is deter mined; he will not live near his work, says Charles M. Skinner in the Atlan tic. You shall see him in the morn ing, one of 60 people in a car built for 24, reading his paper, clinging to a strap, trodden, jostled, smirched, thrown into harrowing relations with men who drink, chew tobacco, eat raw onions, and incontinently breathe; and after 30 minutes of this contact, with the roar sf streets in his ears, with languid clerks and pinguid market women leaning again, him, he arrives at his office. The problems of his howeward journey in thc evening will be still more difficult, because, in ad dition to the workers, the cars must carry the multitude of demoiselles who shop and go to matinees. To many men and women of business a seat is an undreamed luxury. Yet, they would be insulted if one were to ask why they did not live over their shops, os Frenchmen do, or back of them, like Englishmen. It is 'this un easy instinct of Americans, this desire of their families lo separate industrial and social life, that makes the use of the trolley car imperative, and the street railway in this manner widens the life and dominion of the people, it enables them to distribute themselves over wider spaces and unwittingly to symbolize the expansiveness of the nation. Lightning. No doubt because of the grandeur of the thunderstorm, the brilliant flashes of thc lightning and the- loud noise of the thunder, the large majority of thc human race is timid ana nervous and stands in fear of lightning. Notwith standing the common belief that light ning is very dangerous, the total num ber of persons killed in a given sum mer in this country is extremely small in comparison with the population. The number also varies largely from year to year, the last year having witnessed an unusual Humber of deaths from this cause. The general average seems to be about one death to 200,000 of the population each sum mer from lightning. Thousands of people struck by lightning have been allowed to die for lack of attention. The rule is that artificial respiraFion should bc brought about at once The clothes should be loosened, and thc well-known movements of the arms and chest made to brlnq; about natural breathing.-Electrical Review. Th?? Coming Wan. Professor Brunor malvas a startling prediction as lo human development. He sees in tho future man a being in whom strange transformations shall have taken pl.ice; a being in whom brain is master, ruling a body much larger than that of tho present man; a body which has lost its floating rib?, Its vermifoam appendix anil its little toes, and in which many other chang es have taken place. He believes tho chest and upper and lower limbs will be larger and thal ?he future man will be much taller than his prototype of today.-London Globe. Somo people waste a lot of tiiiio pfor^hlfe to meet an err.erge;H'.V, and itjfcn qon'fc rtcppmaB it vn*n it Kaw Calling Out Members. "A rather curious change has taken place in the way we call out num bers," said the man who was on the lookout for the more novel things of life, "and it has completely revolu tionize the old way of calling out num bers. Take the number 1,546, as an example: Time was when no man would think of saying anything but one thousand five hundred and forty six. He would use seven distinct words in calling out the number. This rule fs still observen, m the schools, but outside the schoolroom one rarely hears it called out after the old fashion. If it is a street number, a telephone number or any other par ticular place or thing designated by number we will simply call lt 'fifteen forty-six.' Do you notice the economy in words? Here we use only jthree words, instead of seven, as of old. lt saves breath and saves time, and any thing that saves time is the proper caper these days. Time is the great element now. If the number should happen to be 1,090, instead of using four words in saying one thousand and ninety, we dismiss the number with two words by simply saying 'ten ninety.' In the case of telenhorm numbers in the larger cities where the duplication of numbers has been re sorted to, with a final figure indicat ing the serial number, aSj lor In stance, 154C-23, instead of saying one thousand five hundred and forty-six twenty-three, we will simply call out. to the exchange 'fifteen forty-six twenty-three.' Here we find the same time-saving principle. Yet if we had called numbers after this fashion Just a few years back we would not have been understood at all. If you call figures in thc old way now you are put down as worso than a backwoodsman. You aro simply a jay, that's all. We do these things because we live In a hurrying age. We want to get through quickly and pass to the next post."-New Orleans Times-Democrat A FINANCIAL COUP. . "I wonder why the King of Spain de sires to Introduce horse racing as a national amusement?" "Possibly," said the man who doesn't appreciate money till it's gone, "he wants to help the treasury out by putting the cabinet into the ring as bookmakers."-Washington Star. COULDN'T MISS IT. Miss Hoyle-Yes, he kissed me when we went through that dark tunnel. I don't see how he managed to find mi mouth. Miss Doyle-That was probably the first thing ho struck.-New York Press. MISS VIRGINIA GRANES Tells How Hospital Physicians Use and Rely upon Lydia E. Pinkliani's Vegetable Com pound. _ " DHAB MRS. PINKHAM : -Twelve ?ears continuous service at tho sick ed in some of our prominent hospi tals, as well as at private homes, has given rae varied experiences with the diseasesof women. I have nursed some MISS VIRGINIA GRANES, President o? Kurses'AssocIation.Watertoirn^N.T. most distressing cases of inflammation and ulceration of the ovaries and womb. I have known that doctors used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound when everything else failed with their patten j& I have advised my patients and friends to use it and have yet to hear of its first failure to cure. V Four years ago I had falling.of the womb from straining in lifting a heavy patient, and knowing of the value of your Compound I began to use it at once, and in six weeks I was well once more, and have had no trouble since. I am most pleased to have had an oppor tunity to sny a few words in praise Of your Vegetable Compound, and shall take every occasion to recommend it." Miss VIRGINIA GBAXES.-$5009 forfeit If above testimonial ls not aenulne. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound bas stood tbe test of time, and has cured thousands. Mrs. Pinkham advises sick wo men free. Address, Lynn, Mass, LIBBY, MCNEILL & LIBBY, CHICAGO Aile for oar booklet, "How TO MASK GOOD THINGS TO EAT." It will be Mat 70a free. mJm * A M M. A A. ^ A. J*. ^ Ag Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold fa balk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something jost as good." WANTED" 23 50 Young Me ia. At once to qualify for Rood positions which we will Kuarnnteo In writing unilor a $5,000 deposit to promptly piocur- :hem. The Ga.-AIa. Bus. College, MACON, GEORGIA. ATLANTA COLLEGE OF PnAWW?C?. Freo Dispensary, only coll ORO In tte U. ?. op. crating 11 drug store. Demand for graduates grxiior tbnu wo can supply. Address Ult. OKO. F. PAYNK, Whitehall, Atlanta, Ga. H?M?MS W?ZAR ">IL fURNfvSCALl t?o?i V- ri Uio Work-box J'ooplo. "We go through all our work," Tho needles proudly cry: "But not until you're pushed," Is the thimble's apt reply. "Oura is n strong attachment," Whisper hook nnd eye together; '.Yet you noed us to sncure you," Hum the threads, Uko windy weather. They all ropronchod tbo scissors, But the scissors didn't care: 'Twas his trade to cut acquaintance, And ho did it with an air ! Gayly josting thus, and Donating, Work-box people all at play 1 Silence, all! it is the mistress Coming from ueross tho way. -Christian Register. \r - Cat on tho Payroll? Ten dollars "for lood for the F?st" office cat" is, perhaps, the most curi ous allowance made by former Post master General Smith. In the post office in Sc. Paul, Minn., is a cat that has endeared itself to the employes, not alone by its gentle ways, but by its ability to catch the rodents which infest tho place. The postoffice in St. Paul is an old affair, and great caution has to be taken with the mails to pre vent their being nibbled by the rats and mice. Many efforts have been made to get a cat that would appreciate its official position and work in the inter ests of tho government, but all failed until finally a cat came that evidently meant business. She was, however, enticed to a neighboring building, where though tho atmosphere was less aristocratic, the fare was better. Numerous other specimens of thc feline race came, tried the position of government rat killer and left, appar ently dissatisfied with the existing pay roll. The mails did not contain eatables, and a strict diet of rodents was not to their taste. Any self-respecting cat demanded an appetizer in the shape cf milk or cream. Finally, the present incumbent ap peal Cc. and has given such general w plac-tion that the government has nindr a special requisition in its favor, and it will be supplied with all tho del icacies of the season. This is one of the few instances where a cat has hoon placed on the payroll of Uncle Sam. r?celo?. Puggles' home is in Italy, in a clergyman's family, and he is the very prettiest "pug" that ever was. He always went in to dinner with the family, and after the plates were removed from thc last course and cof fee was served, he would mount the table from his usual cozy place in the lap of his mistress's pape, and grave ly seating himself, would eat a bit of sugar and lap some coffee. One day, while a party of ladles and gentlemen were taking their coffee. Puggles' mistress took a piece of cake of which he is very fond, and laid a morsel before him, saying, "Stolen!" Puggles' nose was instantly elevat ed in the air, and he sat like a statue until she said, "Paid for," when he at once snapped it up. Then she laid a bit down, saying, "Monday we eat." He ate. She pu? another crumb before him, saying, 'tuesday we eat," and he licked it up. "Wednesday we shake hands." He shook hands and ate Wednesday's piece. "Thursday wc eat." He ate. "Friday is a solmcn fast." Up went Puggles'. nose, and bc became still as a stone until his mistress said, "Sat urday wc eat," when he at once ate up Friday's portion. "Sunday we eat double, ' laying down two bits, and he ate them, amidst the noisy approval of all, while Puggles sat quite unconcerned. The performance was repeated, but as the young lady said, "Tuesday we eat," and Puggles' head was going down to the coveted piece of cake, a gentleman said, "Stolen!" Pugglcs's head went up, so he said, "Paid for," and Puggles took his honestly ob tained sweets.-Youth's Companion. A Now Qito?tlon On mo. Captains arc chosan, and they in turn choose sides, as in an old fash ioned spelling match. A timekeeper is also chosen, one h^s a watch with a secular second hand. The two sides sit opposite each other in two long rows. Thc timekeeper sits between thc two rows, at the end decided upon as the head, and he holds his watch open before him. The captain sits at the head of his row and asks the first question. Any one on the other side may answer the question, but it must be answered inside of a minute. If no one answers before thc minute is up the timekeeper calls "Time! " and the captain who asked ene question calls any one from the other side to his side. If, on the other hand, the other side answer before thc minute is up, they call one from the captain who asked tue question. Any one may be chosen from either side except the captain. Then thc captain on thc oth er side asks a question, and the same rule is followed, then the one next to the captain who first asked a ques tion asks a question, his opposite fol lows with a question, and so on until every one on both sides has asked a question. Then the side that has the most on it is victorious. No ono must ask a question he or she cannot answer. And if the other side fail to answer a question the one that asked it must give the correct answer. The questions must be such as "Who was the seventh president of the United States?" or "How many legs has a house fly?" or "Who was thc author of 'Snow bound'?" or "What president owned a home called Monticello?" or "How much is eight times nineteen?" Any boy who asks a question which he cannot answer himself, or who asks a question which has more than one answer, must go himself to tho oppo site side. The ones that arc called over go to thc foot of the class.-New York Tribune. Plnylni; Bobin. Grandpa paw the two little girls walking toward the cherry tree. "Don't pick my cherries," said he, sharply, as he hurried into the house. The little girls looked soberly at each other, then at tho beautiful cher ry tree. "Let's go lo thc barn." .'aid Jessie. "Lets play ?II der tho cherry tree," said L'eatricc, "we needn't pick his. old cherries." The grass was thick and green un der thc tree. They sat upon lt, loan ing against thc trunk. Birds flew in and out of the great tree, unafraid of the girls and the children envied the birds. "I can climb this tree," cried Jessie. "So can I," said Beatrice, "just as easy; let us do lt and play we are rob bins;" . they fetched a lons fonce board tvM plew* QA* M Bgfti&it t&t titi and so managed to scramble at upon the large branches. Here sat, swinging taeir feet and sin for several happy minutes. But al them, high in the tree, the chei looked red, much redder than looked from the ground. '"I tell you what," said Beatrice, " climb up to that bough yonder ant can reach up and eat cherries robbins do. Then Grandpa will n know. I think Grandpa is selfish. Jessie looked first at Beatrice then at the cherries. "He is self! she said, and the two girls clin higher and soon were pulling d the twigs with their shining fruit It was slow work for the eager 1 mouths to eat the pulp and leave pits and stems on the twigs, l?ut 1 ate a great many cherries. The br< bl ew the branch out of their rc and stretching up to catch it one lost her footing and fell against other. The slender branch snap and down through the boughs t crashed to the ground. "Oh. oh, oh!" they screamed. ' most killed," wailed Beatrice. "My foot ls all broke to piece cried Jessie. They could not rise pain. Grandpa ran to them. "Oho, I s said ho, sternly, but after helping atrice to the house he carried Jo: to her home. Each had a sprai ankle, khicli kept them indoors more than a week. When Jessie came to see Beat: for the first time after the accid the two little girls sat soberly on porcfi. They looked at thc beaut cherry tree with its broken limb. "I don't want to play robbin, you?" asked Jessie. "No," said Beatrice, "and I d< want cherries when Grandpa s rot. They were not ripe." "No," said Jessie, "I was awful s of "em." "I was, too," chimed in Beatrice, b'lieve T most died!" "Your grandpa wasn't selfish," s Jessie. "No, indeed," assented Bcatri They looked at the tree and gav? great sigh. "Well," said Jessie, cheerfully, "U go to the barn and play we arc hen and away they ran.-Brooklyn Eai Feline Gmt li mle. The funniest little cat in New Y< lives in a semi-deserted flat on I West Side. Her master goes away the morning and does not return Ul late at night and all this time the lit cat has to amuse herself the best v she can. As she is a sociable lit creature her solitary life weighs he ?ly upon her spirits and she percl on the kitchen window sill, whi gives a view on a neighbor's yard a watcher, eviously thc free and hap cats that play there. Thc ncighh being a tender hearted person, wrt a letter to the cat's master and ceived permission to introduce thc f lorn puss io the pleasures of the ya and its merry occupants. Eve morning the neighjor's servant 1< the little cat out 01 the kitchen a turns her loose in the yard with t other cats. But the green grass h but a temporary charm for the liti visitor cat. If anything interesting such as the preparation of luncheon is going on in the kitc.cn the little c deserts her playfellows of the ya and establishes herself at the cool elbow, purring contentedly and kee ing her bright eyes on her so as n to lose a single movement. Her 1 vorite perch is on top of the g range, and Casablanca did not stl to his burning deck more stubborn than this little cat sticks to her per ons post of observation. Even win the range is "in action" Tippy ca not be induced to budge from h position, and not until everythii cookable is eaten or otherwise put o of sight will the little cat consent come down to earth and interest hi self in other things. Once a week the" cat-loving neig bor sends a beef heart from the bute er's to be cooked for the pussies' di ners throughout the week. When tl cooking of this "plat du jour" taki place Tippy behaves as a Kentucl cat who had attended barbecues her native land might act under tl same circumstances. As soon as tl beef heart is brought into the kitclu she seems to know that something u usual is on foot and settles herself i her favorite spot on top of the gt range. Thc beef heart is put on to bo in a saucepan and left there two hour All that time the little visitor carnie take her eyes off the pan or relax lu attention except to stretch a little c to pillow her head upon her paw when she gets tired of sitting sphin fashion, with paws primly in front c her. When the meat is cooked an put in a bowl on the window sill t cool she yawns from fatigue after he long vlgH, but does not throw dow her burden. She takes a position o the window sill, among the plants, an there she stays until the precious bec heart is put away in the refrigeratoi At first the cook thought thc visitoi cat was a greedy gut pure and simple and then she came to the eonc-lusiio: that she was a grateful creature tba was anxious to repay, in vigilance am fidelity, thc kindness of the hostess The way thc cole came to this opinioi is interesting. One day, before the lit tl*? r at had been brought into the yard a chicken was placed on the kitchei window for a minute while the cool was washing her hands at the sinh When she turned around it was gone As the chicken was not a live one, bu ready to be dressed, the astouishmen of Bridget was profound. She lookec around the kitchen for signs of sprite; or banshees, but saw none, and ther she went out into the yard just in time to prevent one of her mistress' pets from disappearing over the fence witt the fat and tender poulet au naturel Cook administered a sound whacking to tho thief and denounced him in un measured terms in her rich brogue which never fails to bring the neigh hors to their windows. As she was returning to the house with the muti lated chicken in her hand and angry words still on her lips she happened to look up at the fiat house, and there pitting on the window ledge, was the little visitor cat, taking in the scene with eyes that wore almost popping out of her head with excitement. 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