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Igi 10E YS AND GIRLS ' weeks> probably to the «nv y 0 f an | other sparrow's. At last In a wind storm. It burst, 1 and for the remainder of the summer a little dab of red hung down from the nest—which was the last of Tony’s balloon.—Selected. RAM S HORN BLASTS. SOMITE GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. A Small Boy’* Mission—A Tro« Story of a Toy Balloon—“Bare to Do Right, Dare to Be True’*—Some Good Ad- Tlee from Aunt Mary. A Small Boy’s Mission. MALL as I am, I’va a mission below— A mission that wid ens and grows as I grow— ’Tis to let alone ci der and brandy and gin; ’Tis to keep well away from these potions of sin. ’Tis to make mysel? noble and manly and true, Tis to touch no tobacco, not smoke not chew— That unheal thful weed that true women detest, And all people know is a filthy old pest Tis to say unto all what I say unto you. Let these things alone If you would be true; They are foes to all virtue, and lead down to shame; Shun drink and tobacco, and keep your good name. Cold water that comes from the well is my drink. The healthiest, purest and sweetest, I think; It never makes drunkards, it never brings woe— I’ll praise It and drink It wherever I go. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A True Story of a Toy Balloon. “There’s a balloon man going by.” Sure enough there was. Ted and Tony rushed to the front door to see the balloons. “Blue ones and red ones.” “Just like a great bunch of grapes.” “See ’em bob in the wind!” "Oh. oh!” Two pairs of boy eyes gazed in an agony of longing at the balloons. Uncle Mark was sitting on the porah. He now got up and came towards the boys. “When I was a small boy I liked toy balloons.” “I guess all boys do,” said Ted mod estly. "Which color do you want?” “Red,” said Ted. “Red,” said Tony. “Two red, then,” said Uncle Mark, to the man. “Oh, no,” saidiTcd, “we don’t want both red.^ Theyfl get mixed up.” it red;’’ persisted Tony, lid TOd, a little unwilling- take blue.” loosened from his bunch a red and a “Dur* to do Right, D«re to be Troe.” Dear Boys and Girls—The last chat in our Cozy Corner was about a food fair and the new articles of diet by which we can keep strong and well. People are not only interested in what we eat. but in what we drink as well, and every large city has to study how to give its citizens good drinking wa ter. I had several large bottles of wa ter brought to me last summer, which came from a beautiful spring so clear that the word “pure,” carved in the marble at the bottom of the spring, was plainly photographed through six feet of water. Do you know how many properties there are in water? This pure water, when analyzed, was found to contain sulphate of lime, carbonate of lime, sul phate of magnesia, carbonate of mag nesia, carbonate of iron, chloride of soda, silica, free carbonic acid and vo latile material. These are in just the right proportion to make the water good to drink. You have all heard the song, “The Old Oaken Bucket,” written by Sam*3l Woodworth. In the home where the poet once lived is kept the old buck et. and visitors go to see it and the little low house and the mill and “the bridge and the rock where the catar act fell.” There Is the old well, with its long sweep that was once used to draw up the clear, cool water in the mossy, old oaken bucket. I have seen the place many times when riding by in the cars, and it makes a pretty pic ture. Your cold water friend. i 1 en I’ll The World It Waa and I*. The earth, which we find to-day bright with varied hues, vocal with in numerable sounds, rich in fruits and fragrant with odors, lay for an almost incalculable period of time destitute, or all but destitute of color, soundless save for the noise of wave and tom- pest, and with no promise as yet ot the rich profusion of vegetable and ani mal forms that now diversify its sur face and fill it with the thrill and manifold activities of life, says Popu lar Science Monthly. We often speak of man as “the heir of all the ages,” but not often, probably, do we pause to realize the significance of the word. W® talk of evolution, but seldom make any due effort to grasp the plentitude and jgrandeur of the thought. These aaas&,oL mhicL. w«»-hav» the use and 'HUl "Well ly, “then The man the strings belonging to blue balloon. “Ketch hold kcerful, now,” he said, “or they’ll get away from ye.” “Let me,” said Ted. ”No—let me,” said Tony. Two small hands were stretched out together to take the strings. And whose fault it was—whether of either or both, or the balloon man’s, can nev er be told—the string of the red bal loon slipped away. "Hold on,” cried Ted. “Catch it!” screamed Tony. But the balloon sailed away until It stopped against the branches of a tall tree, with the string hanging down. Uncle Mark tried to seize It, but it was Just beyond his reach. "I’ll go and bring the step ladder,” he said. On the way back with it he heard loud cries from the boys. He dropped the ladder and ran to them. It was hard to tell whether the cries were of terror or merriment. What had happened? A dozen or more sparrows had been hopping and chirping about, all busy looking for stuff with which to build their nests. One pair of the bright lit tle eyes had spied the string hanging from the balloon. A flash of the brown wings—and the balloon was moving away. “Look! Look!” “It’s going off with it!” “You bring that back!” “Whose balloon is it?” asked Uncle Mark. "Mine,” said Tony, half inclined to cry. But it was so funny beyond all meas ure to see the sparrow hauling away that balloon that even Tony could not keep sober. They laughed and scream ed and clapped their hands until ev ery one about the place came to look. He meant business, that bird. They followed him as he flew with the string around the side of the house. Then, on a ledge Just under the eaves of the gable, they could see that he was building a nest. Watching him. they saw him begin to weave in the string. “He’s welcome to the string If only he’d let me have my balloon,” whim pered Tony. “I wouldn’t mind a bit If It was mine,” said Ted. “It’s so comical to see it bobbing in the wind while the little rascal works away “I don’t mind,” said Tony. “You never had a halloed built into a bird’s neat.’ , .. An hour later the string was mnch shorter. Before night the balloon was bound down to within a foot or two of the nest. And there it stayed for each’of which brings a different world within our ken, whence are they? It seems so natural to see, it seems so natural to hear, to touch, to smell, to taste, that we forget through what slow processes, by what an Incalcula ble number of slight accretions and delicate modifications, these wonderful channels of knowledge and sensation have been made for us. We go back through the ages and we come to a sightless, voiceless world. For a period probably as long as all the rest of geological time the only forms of life were protozoa. Sight was developed among the wonderful crus taceans of the Silurian period, but as yet there were no organs of hearing. The first stridulatlon of an Insect wing was heard (if it was heard) in the de vonian age, the birth epoch of the first vertebrates—fishes—but long ages had to pass before the first bee hummed over a flower or the first butterfly flut tered its wings in the sunshine. Paralas Notes Calline the W icked to Repentance. ENTTRE is a slippery road. Bad habits nev- i er backslide. Mortal beauty is but mud In blossom. It takes more than beauty to run a kitchen. The devil is most like a roar ing lion when he looks most like a iheep. The wounded need the helping hand. No expert can pick the locks of Dlety. The true hero bears insult and keeps the peace. It takes wit and grit to paddle your own canoe. Better a hero with bare body, than a craven In armor. He Is often sold, who buys much at the bargain counter. If you would teach your children pa tience, show them what it is. Without a competency for old ago, none arc happy and few honest. It Is because men can talk together, that they do not travel on all fours. The man who knows how to live well, will not have t* learn how to die well. He who shoots In the right direc tion, will sooner or later hit something. Many a man has to go away from home to become acquainted with him self. It is a long step In the right direction to be willing to take things as they come. The devil will keep on coming to us, as long as we let liu In when he knocks. Every man who some tracks that oth follow. This life is the dref lifts the curtain and eternal stage. The young man wh his hours, his dimes a fish worth catching Future generations loam that centralize public Is the nest-eg The poor man brav ng cheerfully the waves of adversity, d splays more hero ism than Bonaparte Amsterlitx. The boy at ton, v house; at twenty, he state; at thirty, he tr fts to rule his off spring, and at forty, ic has some seri ous thoughts of trying to rule himself. -i — — jhu « A Humpbacked Turtle. A turtle weighing 103 pounds, with a peculiar hump on his back, was caught at Hoffman’s lake, near Bourbon, Ind. The feet are formed like a duck’s foot, with a web. The tail Is extra short, but the neck when stretched out easily reaches back over the hump, which is eleven inches high. 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