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^ WORLDS BJffil FARM A Mexican Don Who Owns an ? ?,. 8,000,000 Acre Ranch. HOMESTEAD IS A PALACE Don Luis Terrnzas, of Chihauhau, [Employs 2,000 Cow Punchers, Line Riders, Shepherds and Hunters?He Owns 1,000,000 Cattle, 700,000 Sheep, 10D.C00 Horses. The biggest farm?if "farm" it can be called?Is that owned by Don Luis TerrazaB in the State of Chlbauhau, Mexico, which measures from north to south 150 miles and from east to west 200 miles, or 8.000,000 acres in all. On Its prairies and mountains roam 1,000,000 head of cattle, 700.000 sheep and 100,000 horses. The "farm house" is probably the most magnllicent in the world for It cost 1400,000 to build and is more richly furnished than many a royal palace. On the homestead alone are employed a hundred servants. The gardens are superoiy laid out, the stables more magnificent thau those of the German Emperor and there is accommodation for 5 00 guests if necessary. Scattered over this vast ranch are a hundred outlying stations, each one of which has charge of a certain portion of the estate. The horsemen, cow punchers line riders, shepherds and hunters number 2,000 and the 'JKrrazas ranch is the only one in tha world which maintains its own slaughtering and packing plant. Each year 150,000 head of cattle are slaughtered, dressed and packed, and 1011 llllli chpon I u_l_e llw - - 1J superintends the different Industries on his ranch, covering many thousands of miles on horseback during a twelvemonth. Don Luis was at one time Governor of Ghlhauhau, but public life did not suit him; it was too quiet, and he preferred to spend bis life riding over the plains and looking after his own enterprises. He Is three times as rich as any other man In Mexico and has the name of being liberal and generous toward Ills workpeople. Don Luis is a very handsome man, married to a beautiful wife. He is the father of twelve children?seven sons and live daughters. The sons are all asBOclateu with Don Luis in lookiug after the ranch, while the daughters, said to be the most beautiful women In Mexico?remain quietly at the homestead. *A1 the children were educated in the United Htates. are highly accomplished, have travelled through Europe, and speak several languages. Don Luis founded his cattle ranch about fourteen years ago and four years later he sought to Import tho finest oatt'.e from Scotland and England. llut there was u considerable difficulty In the way. The Import duty on cattle was so heavy that It was Impossible to bring over the animals In quantities sufficient for his purpose, so uon uuis appealed to the taaxlcan Government, pointed out the absurdity of restricting the Importation of good stock Into the country and succeeded In getting the Import tax repealed. Since that time 'lerrazas has Increased hl9 stock by the importation of something like 6,000 hulls of the best breeds from the fumous studs of Europe. Five years ago Terrazas Installed on his ranch four big reservoirs costing ?100,000, besides which there are S00 wells scattered over the huge farm, some of them going down to a depth 01 600 feet. These wells, the water from which is raised by the use of windmills, cost another ?100.000. Every kind of grain is grown and Don Luis is consantly experimenting In the raising of diferent "foods for supplying the wants of his immense herds during the rainless season. An'enemy which has to be sternly fought on this great ranch Is fire, and scarcely a summer passes without great tracts of prairie being laid waste by ita destroying advance. Through the torrid months there is a man stationed on the lookout at every station each hou\- of the twenty-four, and directly he sees Indications which tells him that lire has started he rings the massive alarm bell and and in an Incredibly short ??u<v iuvu i;uuio i iu;ii^ in rcauy 10 tight the danger with their lives If necessary. The frightened cattle are driven sideways from the oncoming fire and then the enemy Is attacked f -cm the rear. It Is no good attempting to stop a prairie fire from the front, for Its progress is too rapid and too annihilating. Heavy chains are dra?tgea along the ground which help to weaken and disipate the fire. Across the prairie long furrows fifty feet apart are quickly made, and thes< also help to stem the progress of the lire. All night the fight is kept up, and not until the last spark Is quenched are the men able to take food and rest. ! In these efforts to subdue the flames joii Luis and h's sons are usually seen working like demons and urginr lhci- men to greater efforts. Fighting a prairie fire has alt the elements of dan;tr and for excitement It has few equals. For this reason Don Luis takes a fierce delight In combat.ng the Humes and declares that It is one of the fascinations of a prairie life. Men with blue or gray eyes are al? ^ most Invariably the best shots. - W : * s }i ALL IN A DAY. **Uo you are really going, little The girl turned toward the stalwart figure in the doorway. "Yea." the nodded brightly. "Come In, Ted. If you can find a seat; you Kay help me strap up th\p trunk, If 1 can over get all these things In." ruefully glancing at the heaped up Chairs. "It'B a shame." he continued, "that you should have to go just as I have made a killing?look at that!" He Cashed a"ctTeck before her amused gaze. "Think of the fun we could have." The pretty color flamed In Nan's face, and the eyes, like wood violets In hue. with their short. Btraight fringes of bronze gold, Bhone happily upon the young fellow. They were both artists, these two. The girl was an expert miniature worker, while Ted was a "real" artist, as Nan said. Nan perched -n the edge of the trunk and looked at him thoughtfully. Ted was connecteJ with so many pleasant memories, days now drawing to a close?of the early aays of struggle, when the "third fioor back" shared his cheese and rolls with the struggling miniature artist, and the chafing dish stunts that she had Insisted on Ted's sampling before she had set her dainty suppers before their fellow artists. ThlB was after the orders began to come In. Nan was going home to b^ married. Engaged at 18 to her boy lover. It seemed the most natural tnlng In the world then, for they had grown up together?but now?well, she must not think of that. John had been faithful for seven years, and Nan was a girl of her word. When her first success came she would gladly have married him, but he refused, until his salary was adequate to support a wife. No living upon a woman for him. He did not object to his wife amusing herself If she liked, with her "pretty work," as he called It. but not for his benefit. Honest, uncompromising John? how different he seemed from her merry companions of the last three years. Nan wondered why she felt so little enthusiasm over her prospects. Suddenly she turned to Ted with the quick bird-like motion that always fascinated him. "1 don't feel a bit as If 1 were to be married," she said confidentially. "1 guess I'm g.owing* old," dimpling. "You old?" replied the young man, gazing at her critically. "You will never grow old. Nan." seriously. "It will seem blamed queer without you," he added, with a tight'>ning of the muscles around his well-shaped mouth. ' Nell Is going to take those rooni9 and you will help her over the hard places as you have nie." Nan gazed affectionately at the big fellow. Of course Ted would visit >ohn and herself when they were in: riod, but it would he different, someway, she felt. A merry whistle sounded In the hall and Nell's young brother flipped something white Into Nan'B lap with deft aim. "Mercy! the post! I hffd no Idea It was so late. From John," said the girl, tearing it open. "The bridegroom crows lmna tlent," teased Ted "Good Lord, Nan. what's tho matter?" With white f%ce the girl extended the letter toward him. "Head It!" abruptly. Then her Hps quivered. "1 am not to bo married after all," trying to smile, but the shock was too great; the next moment she sank In an unconscious neap at Ted's feet. "Nan, darling!" he cried, as he lifted tho little form and held It close to his wildly beating heart for an Instant. "Darling," he whispered again. Just then the beautiful eyes un losed and Ted set her gently on her feet, with his arm still support.ng her. "Such a silly," said Nan, recovering. "1 never fati.ted beiort In my Ule." "Poor little girl; was she nil tired out packing," teasingly. but there was a new note in his voice. "Well! that was a facer!" said Nan. trying to hide her chagrin. "John, unromant'c John, finds his affinity In the 'Helle of the rtomners' and wants me to release h'm. Oh! It's too. too, funny.' Nan laughed hysterically. "Don't look so r.orry. Ted; really, I don't bel'eve 1 care very much. Why! l shan't have to leave al. this and " "And me," Interposed Ted, with that same old tone. This time Nhn noticed It. "And you. of course. Why, what?" she cried, startled by the look she surprised In his handsome Cray eyes. "Don't you know. Nan?" he asked eoftly. "1 don't believe you really ever loved John?so I don't mind telltng you. It has always been you dear, with mo." Nan flushed hotly. "You are sure.? It Isn't because?you are sorry?-for me?" "Oh! rtI! girl, can't you tell?" Ted opened-his arms ontreatlngly. Wonderlngly, Nan went towards them, nnd as they closed around her. "1 Co believe it's hern vou all the t.me, only 1 didn't know It." she slgh^u contentedly. Then with ono of her quick transitions. "Oh, Ted, boy! won't we jus* spend that cbeck?together?" s / catctti.vg nsn itc bartckts. An Knsy Method Which ObUdneA Around the Bay of Fnndj. The Bay of Fundy has always been a famous fishing ground especially for salmon and shad. Fifty yuw ago the flBh were so plentiful that a method was used to catch them which seems odd nowadays when a fish has at least half a chance to escape the hook or the net. The tide rises high In the Bay of Fundy and Its headwaters, and of this fact the fishermen of fifty years ago took full advantage. At high tide the water makes sizable rlvera of tiny streams. Large schools of shad and other fish In those day* came up the river with the tide. The method of catching them wna simple In the extreme. At low tide a seine would he staked to the river bed and uie top of the seine weighted to the bottom with leads Then after the tide had risen the fishermen would pull up tne seine so that it formed a barrier across tbe entire river bed. Wuen the tide began to run out the fish would find their return to the sea and freedom barred etfectHely. The little fellow3, of course, would make their way through the Heine, but the ones worth catching would Hop Impotently against the meshes. Soon the tide would be out com plotely. leaving only a foot of water In the river. Several thousand fish would be there for the taking. A pair of rubber boots and a basket would be sufficient equipment for the fishermen, who waded out ant" gathered them ia wholeeaie. The 2sh don't run up the rivers any more, and the seining must bs dune In the bay itEelf. This is profitable, it 1a true, but a fish with half a head can avoid capture for a loug time. Iron Cnnes for Exercise. Among fashionable accessories of the masculine costume the very newest Item is the ircn cane. It weighs possibly seven and a half pounds, and it is Intended aa an exerciser. For the business man who has little time for chest weights, dumbbells and all the other devices for keeping hi nisei f iu trim the cane may prove a boon. It can he used as one walks in tlie open air, and consequently la the city man s nearest substitute for the natural exercise wnlch cornea from outdoor sports. While walking along the cane may be swung first in one hand and then in the other, so tliat development will be uniform. Sc If men of somcwlu portly build o. of Jaded. overworKed complexion or otherwise aflllcted with the signs of city confinement and lack of exerolse are observed during the next few months promenading the city streetH and gracefully, lightly, airily swinging canes after the manner of major donios, the spectacle wlli not be caused by a sudden attack of springtime gayety. It will simply be tlio man with the Iron cane out for IiIb ^aily stroll. Coffee, (lie inspirer. The Italian composer, Donizetti, courted Inspiration by a means which proved bo injurious that It caused the premature decay of his faculties. He vas accustomed to shut himself lu his room with a Quantity of muiic paper, pens, and Ink, and three or four pots of strong coffee. He would then begin to write and drink, aud when the supply of coffee was exhausted, he would order more, and continue to drink as long as he wrote. He usserted that the coffee was necessary for hlR Inspiration. Tha result of this pernlclo.ie habit, was a yellow, parchment like complexion, with lips aim' t Jet black, and a nervous system, which soon caused his breakdown and death. An Odd Test for the Postal Service. Postal officials say that the most, fluttering test ever made of the safe ty of Uncle Sams mall service was the experiment tried by a Western man. li ? neelo/1 ?? - -? * - - * - ? ' -- wc j/aoiru mi nun nia? ui a silver dollai a bit of paper on which he wrote his son's address In auother city. On the other bide he affixed & one-cnnt stamp, sending the coin at merchandise rates. The sender received a letter two days later from his son acknowledging the receipt of the dollar. The test was, I#Is stated the result of a dispute the sender had with a foreigner who doubted the American's assertion of the safety af the United States mails. Modern I touts. While waiting for the Manretanla to come down the Tyne, the following conversation was heard between two mtuurs: "Th >y tell me, Geordle,, she's an awful tig ship; she burns 12,000 tons or coal u cny!' " Aye!" says Oeordle, "and I'll toll you another thing: The liremeu go fbout the stokehold in motor cars, atul when they want to get on deck they come up in bulloous."?Philadelphia Inquirer. Asleep tor Itii-p and n Ha!f Vriini. An astonish.ng trance cuse haa come to light in Berlin. A clerk aged forty-six- a healthy, normal niau- suddenly fell asleep in June 1904. All efforta to awaken him were unsuccessful and he was placed .u bed, he .a at.11. Thj alee?r sinceijfc^n aas never opened his eyes. He breathes ro^ularly and swallows hla food mecnamcally, but is Insensible to the severest attempts tfi. araiuw U1ML--.Hondon Exchango. I II" "" "D TRANSPLANTED HEART'S-EASE mi un nn wfi None of the boarders at the Homestead knew why Eben Buker's face was always sad. Even Faith Euierv. the pretty stenographer, who sat next to him at dinner each day, had never been taken Into his confidence, and had she been told the story of his heartache, she might not have suspected that it was her own golden hair which framed the face so dear to big, patient Eben Buker. When Faith came to the city four years before, a poor little. stranger. Eben helped her to find a situation. It was hard to be poor and old and yet love so young and fair a girl. Had he possessed great wealth she might have forgotten the barrier which Time had placed between them. As it was ?Eben sighed deeply and began to dig more vigorously about the small plants which were his share of the garden plot belonging to the Homestead boarders. "Still trying to make your heart'sease grow?" It was Faith's merry greeting. "Yes, you shall have a blossom be fore long." Eben cried as he arose to welcome her. "But I shan't be needing any." Faith made answer lightly, and Eben saw that her face was radiant with some new-found Joy. "Such a wonderful thing has happened, Eben! You never could guess, so I must tell you what It Is. Aiuit Martha has promised mo her beautiful borne In the country If I will go and live there with her. Such lovely flowers as grow In her garden! Isn't It truly wonderful that it will all be mine some day? Do say you are glad." For a moment Eben was Silent, stunned by the thought of losing Faith. When he spoke. hl3 cheerfulness was forced. "Of course I am glad," lv? said, then added with tender solicitude: "But you will be lonely In the country. You will miss the clt? sights and sounds. Pen haps you may miss the Homestead?" Eben's voice was very wistful, but Faith only laughed. "What part of the Homestead, pray? The pea soup, which is eternal; the stuffy rooms, the crooked stairs Oh, no! I shall not miss the Homestead. It would be very ungrateful when I shall have so beautiful a place of my own." "I suppose so." Eben spoke very sadly. Had not Faith said she should nut mi.QS flu* IlnmiiCtoml nrKUl* I was a part? "You do not seem at all glad!" Tt wa^ Faith's reproach which aroused Eben to set aside his hitter reflections and to discuss with enthusiasm tho bright prospects before his little friend. There would bo time enough to mourn when she was gone. Time enough! Were days ever so long as those which followed Faith's depar ture? It seemed to Fben as If he never could plod on alone In tho same old path. To make his desolation even more complete, tho very day thai Faith went away some rude street urchin, so Eben supposed, scaled the wall which separated the Homestead garden from the street, and stole the precious heart's-ease plants over which he had worked so long. He had hoped some time to have a few flowers to ozer Faith, but now that. Faith was not there, he had not the heart to buy fresh plants, so even the pleasure of working in tho garden after a day of confining toll was no longer his. . He realized every day that youth was flying farther from him, and now there was no sweet voice to hid It stay. He was in this disconsolate frame of mind when a letter from Faith reached him one morning asking him to visit her in her new home. Eager for a sight of her, he needed no second bidding, but started at once for 'the quiet country town where she now lived. It was a long Journey, and the western sky was already aflame with the sunset fires when Ehen found himself walking with Faith through the beautiful garden. So aoft wero the breezes that blew about him. so sweet the Power-scented air, so fair the girl at his side, that he felt that he must be In a land of enchantment. When Faith had won sufficient praise for the stately gladlolas, the old-fasliloned hollyhocks and the sweet peas that seemed to have borrowed every tint of the rainbow, then Bhe led Eben to the old elm which grew by the gateway. "See!" she cried, pointing to a small purple flower that nestled beneath the shade of the tree. "Heart's-ease!" Eben exclaimed. "Yes, your heart's-ease. Eben. I stole it. It seemrd so like a part of you. You had cared for it so long. See! It has blossomed!" and she glanced up sliyjy into his face. The look meant much, but Eben's eyes were on the small blossoms at his feet. "You do oof moan that you cared for the heart'a-ease because It was mine," he said, slowly, while hope drwned in his eyes, that had been sad so long. "Yes. \ said I should not miss the Homestead, flut 1 never said I should not miss you," and Faith's pretty head drooped very low. Tenderly Ebon raised It until he could look Into the deep blue eyes. "Mr darling." ho whispered. Then: "At Inst I have found my Hearts ease!" And his lips pressed Faith's. Germany Is to have an English tbeiv tor In the veryjear future. I WHAT CHIVESE DO FOR HAWAII. Thejr Produce Practically All the Vegetables Grown on the Islands. I Wherever there Is a rice field of . any size water buffaloes are to be found. Their owners take excellent care of them and are usually proud of their condition.. On one plantation I found, a stable In which six of these animals were feeding The buffalo whose chief delight is wading through mud seems to have an ir?uncuve dislike Tor the whlta race, | and often refuses to work under their control, and In one or two Instances white men have been obliged to seek safety In flight from the rebellious disposition of these beasts. They seem to understand the Chinese language, and know Instantly when Chinamen are holding the reins, and under their guidance are perfectly gentle and obedient, to every command. I snw an example c f their antipathy for our race, when a Chinaman allowed a whlto boy to make an attempt to drive one of his animals. The buffalo at first refused to move, and then, stamping his foot he started ofT In the wrong direction and was wholly unmanageable. A few moments later his master took up the reins and he beoame as docile as a pet dog. These animals are healthy and strong and one working well before the plow la worth $200. Birds are a pest In rice culture, and all sorts of means are adopted to keep them ofT the fields. A Chinaman's Idea of a scarecrow, is a pole with a white flag on the top, and hundreds of these are planted In the fields. Another mode or getting rid of these pests Is by beating on tin cans to frighten them away and often men will shoot and eat them ovft of sheer revenge. The grass hopper Is also an enemy to be dealt with, ar It attacks the crop while yet in flower. Every plantation has a largo concrete floor In the open air, on which to dry the crop. Afterthrashing the rice from the straw It Is gathered Into rows and dried while still In the hull, and here the water bufT.ilo Is used again, by being hitched to a wooden shovel and driven about the floor until the rice It piled up ready for bagging. At least Ave thousand Chinese are employed In the production of rice In Hawaii. They also control the taro patones from which pol, the principal Hawaiian food Is made. Many Chinese are engaged In raising ducks, while the sole occupation of ethers Is the raising of chickens. As eggs retail from twenty-five to sixty cents per t.ozen, and live chickens from ten to twelve dollars per dozen, this business should be profitable; but there Is sometime? considerable loss duo to the ravages of a peculiar t opical cisease, which Is fatal to young chickens. The Chinese produce practically all of the \egctables grown in the Islands and sell them from door to dooi. Tne Chinese are by far tho best workers ir. iit cane fields, are quiet Rnd peaceable In manner and attentive to duty, giving the overseers little or no trouble. I^ess than two thousands, however, are to be found on the sugar plantations at present, as the Chinese Kxcluslon act settled coolie Immigration. A numbet of the "native born" have becomestenographers and -re employed by Americans. A professional man of Honolulu told ;ne that his secretary, a ChliJesi youth whom he paid thlrtyflve dollars per month, was "simply perfect."?Mrs. C. It. Mlllor In Leslie's Weekly. All the Same. Tho bachelor uncle had been left In charge of his little niece and, although he had accepted the charge In an easy, off hand manner, he soon realized that he had a contract on his hands. The first drink of water he carried up to her with the evening paper In his other hand and his pipe in his mouth. On tho third trip he laid his paper down with a sigh and he also put his pipe aside thinking that the smoke might bo the cause /vf n.teK l/x.. 1 I?# All- J? a ? v?? outii iuuu iitiaii11it; msiresa. Me Bang dirges, laughed bitterly, pulled facea and performed all the antlea that occur to bachelor uncles in such emergencies, but whenever he was in tho room his littlo niece cried for him to go out, and whenever he went out Bhe cried for him to come in "Hang them anyway!" he was heard to grumble as he fretfully played this exhausting game of peeka-boo. "One or forty-one; they're all alike!" As to Fiction. There's no doubt, of course as to the superiority of fiction which pictures life as It should be over fiction which merely pictures life ns It is. The rub comes in the unfortunate circumstance of there bcine bl fow of us rho really know what life should be?too few, Indeed, to fill up the chinks In the advertising pages, not to mention the body of the magazine. A Conditional <; I ft. The gods knew what they were . about when they ninde health a con- I ditlonal gift *o mankind. For If ! it were absolute and inalienable, i human folly would have a distin- ' guished opportunity the less, and : by that much be hampered in its ap- t (ointeu work of fostering and promoting tr? de and industry. The man who can sculpture a stumbling block into a steppingstone has done more thun most sculptors ever accomplish. I - B. .. . .. .. - ?| I The Queer Little Girl The Queer Little Girl tuade herself a wreath of apple blossoms and picked a willow wand and sat on the bunk by the little stream and cried. "Now I am Queen of thd May." Overhead the birds sang and the little tisues swam like brown shadows 1 in the depths of the pool, but none of them paid any attention to the Queer Little Girl, and at last the Queer Little Girl stood up and said, "I want somebody to play with I want somebody to play with." Hut only the sighing of the winds ans werea ner. Then the Queer Little Girl trotted down the path through the woods, and stopped at the door of a little cottage and said to her mother, "Mother. I'm the Queen of the May." And her mother looked at the wreath ol blossoms and at the willow wand and she made a deep bow and said: 'Will your majesty taste of my apple tarts which I have Just baked?" And the Queer Little Girl clapped her hands and said. "Oh. mother, may I really have one?" And iter mother gave her two on a little blue plate with a glass of milk in a blue cup. And the Queer Little Girl drank all of the milk but a little bit in the bottom of the cup, and that she gave to her black cat. And the black cat drrnk the milk, and then he sat up and curled his tail about his legs and nng to the Queer Girl, and the song he sang sounded something like this: "Purr-ur-up, purr-ur-up." And presently along the road came a great red car. and in the car was a man with round spectacles over his eyes that made him look like a frog. And the Frog Man stopped the car right In front of the lilac bush and said. "Can 1 buy a bunch of lilacs?" And the Queer Little Girl said. "No. But I can give you some." And the Frog Man said. "I want to take them to my little hoy. lie has a bad coj^d and can't come out, and he loves lilacs." "Oh." said the Queer Little Girl, "does he love apple tarts, too?" The Frog Man looked surprised. "Why I guess he does," he said. "What makes you ask?" "My mother has just baked pome lovely ones," said the Queer Little Girl. And she ran up to the cottage and brought back two tarts on a 'due plate, covered with a white napkin. "If you are very careful," she 'old the Frog Man, "you can take them to your little hoy without 'squashing them." The Frog Man smiled and took off his goggles and showed his nice blue eyes. "You must he very happy here," he said, "with your (lowers and the trees and your black pussy cut." The Queer Little Girl nodded. "I would be happier," site told him, "if I had some one to play with." The Frog Man smiled down at her. "no you really want a playmate?" he asked. "Yes." said Mie Queer Little Girl, "I want somebody to play May Queen with me. and I think a hoy would he nicest, because then he could he the King of the May and wear a crown like mine." And the Frog Man said. "Well, if my little boy's cough Is better, I'll bring him here to-morrow morning, and he can be the King of the May." And all the next morning the Queer Little Girl and the black cat watched at the gate, but the big red car did not come; and the morning after that they watched, and still the big car didn't come. But on the third day, they saw It flashing in ihe sunlight, and they ran out to meet it. and there beside the Frog Man was a little boy in a white linen suit, and he had a big box in his arms. And the Frog Man lifted hiin out of the car and said to the Queer Little Girl, "TIiIh is the King of the May." And the Queer Little Girl clapped her hands and laughed, and the black cat rubbed against the little boy's legs, and the little boy said. "My father told me about the blossom wreath and the willow wand, and I want to see f?,,, lltf In MaV.no In II... -..nnlnn - But the Frog Man said: "Don't you want to open your box first?" And the little hoy said, "Oh. yes!" And when he had opened the box there was a wonderful set of pink disliee with gold bands, and the Frog Man snid, "You can serve the banquet on them for the King and Queen of May." And the Queer Little Oirl danced for Joy. and then she said. "We'll have little round white rolls and milk fend strawberries out of the garden Come and help iae pick them." And the little boy said, with his face shining. "This is the nicest place in the world, father. I am going to help her pick strawberries." And the Fr?.g Man said, "Would you like to eome every day?" And the little boy sn'd. "Oh. yes!" So the Frog Man went up to the cottage and talked to the mother of the Queer Litt'e Girl. Then he went down hy the little running brook and fo"nd the Kin p. and Queen of Mrtv with pink h!?i- -om wreaths and wil'ow wands, Pitting on the throne of an o'd gray tree trunk, and >n front if them v :s a !i u i':. t 1 set with ihe 4 pir.k dislies. on which were white rolls and berries and more rosy apple b!oiso"'s. And the Frog Man said: "You are to come every1 day and play with the litthj girl." And the Queer Little Girl, whose eyes shone like stars, clasped the black pur y cat in hor arms and whlsv pored, "Oh, pussy cat. pussy cat, now we shall have somebody to play with everyday!"?Brooklyn Eagle.