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Her Easier
Hens
CW SUSANNZ GLZNN
ICN8 In mighty poor, critter*
Mlm lMty" ?ald old J*
Hon, the miller, pushing
back bis mealy cap. "I
doa't know of nothing that
will Induce 'em to lay If
they ain't ready! Tbla
cold, damp spell has sort of put 'em
back, I guess. Nobody seems to be
Retting any eggs but John Dsnforth.
May be he can tell you what the trou
ble Is."
"1 will try this new mixture, thank
you, Jason/' returned Miss Letty,
crisply. "You will be sure to send it
this afternoon?"
"Yes, yes!" said Jason cordially, not
reminding her that It was not cus
tomary for him to deliver a quarter's
worth of feed. And he turned back
Into the Inner office, where a young
man was moodily turning over the
catalogues on the ddsty desk.
"It seems a pity to see 'Square'
Brown's daughter buying chicken f^ed
by the pound, John," he remarked, se
riously. "And I'm afraid them hens
mean more to her than we realize.
Hut she's too proud to let anybody
know If she half starved!"
"Yes," returned John Danfortb, "she
is too proud!" t
Letty Brown walked down the street
wearily. The purse In her handsome
alligator bag was menacingly empty.
"Just 72 cents after paying for the
chicken feed," she figured; "and two
weeks before I can draw the $10 in
terest money. I don't dare draw on
the principal ? I don't dare! It Is so
little, and I may need It so much
worse some other time. If only the
hens would lay!"
Tears of weakness and vexation
filled her eyes.
At the corner she deviated through
a dreary side street; not yet could
she bring herself to go past the dear
old house wherd alio was born, and
which she had been forced to leave
that sad November time when her
father'a death revealed the condition
of his finances.
'I ought to bo thankful," she re
minded herself virtuously, "that I
have the cottage, and the hens, and
grandmother's legacy.
"If only the legacy were bigger, and
tho cottago wasn't under the very
shadow of John Dan/orth's big house,
and tjie hens would not refuse to lay,"
she amended.
An hour later, arrayed In a dingy
calico Wrapper, Miss Letty went out
, to her poultry house. The flock rush
ed noisily to meet hor.
"Yes, I havo your supper, greedy
things, " she greeted them; "but how
do you repay me? I have watered
and fed you all winter; shoveled snow
to get to you; nover once forgotten
you. Yet you have not given mo eggs
enough to keep mo from getting hun
gry! I cannot keep it up much longer;
when this feed is gone, I shall begin
roasting you unless you do better!"
After the fowls were made comfort
able for the night, Miss I>etty did
what she had done every day all win
ter?she looked hopelessly through
tho square wooden boxes used as
nests. In one, high up, was a small
brown egg!
"Oh." cried she, holding It carefully
in both hands, "something for supper
besides bread and
tea! I know It is
worth threo cents,
Letty Brown, but
I am weak In my
knees for some
thing nourishing,
so you keep still!"
The llttlo brown
egg certainly put
new life into the
heart-sick girl in
the old cottage.
Early next morn
ing she was out in
the chicken yard,
working busily.
"Today," she re
marked cheerily,
"you must lay two
eggs; and tomor
row, four; and
the next ? but I
mustn't get over
14, must I? Well,
if you will lay a
dozen every day
that will make
seven dozens a
week, for you do
not stop work for
Sunday. What
wealth that will be!K
The weather had changed, and the
day was sunny and stl)!. As she
worked about the house, Letty list
ened hopefully for som? disturbance
from the chicken house. In tho ad
Joining yard there was an Incessant
clatter ol shrill, cackling voices, but
her own was ominously silent.
'I, don't know as I could hear Just
ono hen cacklo above that racket, any
way," she said, a little spitefully, as
she scattered tho midday feeding over
the sunny yard. "Now, understand,
1 shall expect two eggs tonight!"
Very anxiously Miss Letty groped
through the high nests that evening.
Again there waB one little brown egg!
But she continued doggedly to Inspect
each shadowy box. In the last one,
down next to the little door through
which the hens ran to the back park
in summer, her hand came in contact
with something that brought Ui
heart to her throat. Careful 1 7, llngeY
Ingly, aha placed them In the feed pall
? altte beautiful brown eggs!
"I do not understand," she mur
mured, wood singly . "It seem* too
good to be true."
8be even nodded kindly to John
Danfortb "when she law blm pottering
about bis own poultry yards.
"I wonder what be would think If he
could know how many eggs I am gst*
ting/' she thought with a smile of
amusement, "He was so certain X did
not know how to take core of hens!"
The amusement faded from her
face, and she went into her little
kitchen and sat down In sudden de
jection.
"Why can I not forget?" she cried
In bitterest self-scorn. "What a goose
I ami"
How she bad trusted blm! How
happy she had been! Even In her
childhood he had been her best friend.
And then to have blm fall a victim to
a pair of dancing eyea and a coquet*
tlsh smile!
"Of course I do not blame him/' she
said aloud, glancing involuntarily
Into the mirror opposite. "I know I
am plain and little and 'everyday.'
But how could I ever trust him
again?"
"Hut he was true, afterward," said
an Insistent voice within her, "and he
wanted to come back!"
"tea," said Letty proudly, "be
wanted to come back to Squire
Hrown's daughter! But has lie ever
wanted to come back to Letty Brown
of the weather-beaten old cottage?"
"Hasn't he wanted to shovel your
paths, and make your garden, and
care for your hens?" continued the
voice. "And haven't you iUscouraged
blm at every turn?"
"I will not have his pity!" flashed
the squire's daughter. "He forgot me
for a frivolous young thing who never
cared for hlm.M
"But he admitted his fault honestly
.. ? ' ? and manfully, and
begged your for
giveness."
A n(A Lett 7
seemed to hear
again his weary
volcei
"Did you never,
make a mistake,,
L*itty?"
"Not that kind,"
she had retorted
with a crlspness
for 1 which the
Browns were
noted.'
Miss Letty
squared her
shoulders deter
minedly.
"I may as well
gather the eggs
before supper,"
she said, In a mat
ter-of-fact way, re
turning to her
prosaic duties,
Dut where she
lad smiled hitherto over t ho fullness
)f her basket, she frowned bewllder
ngly. Slowly she counted them over
igaln. * .
No! there was no mistake about it,
fifteen large brown eggs reposed in
tho basket. Fifteen eggs, and only
fourteen hens!
With Tips compressed in a dis
pleased line, she scrutinized the build
ing. Tho front park was close and
strong; no wandering hen could pos
sibly enter. The narrow gate In tho
back park flapped loosely on Its leath
?r hinges. And Imprinted In the half
iry mud, foot marks showed from the
neighboring park to tho little door at
tho back of her henhouBe! No hen
had left that extra egg In her nests!
"John," she galled, returning to tho
front of tho building, "will you come
Dver here a moment?"
Danforth leaped the fonco lightly.
Letty wanted him!
"Here," she said, demurely, holding
out tho basket, "are your eggs. I am
sorry I have sold tho others, but I will
return the amount as soon as I can.*
Her lips quivered a little with tho
disappointment and humiliation of It
all.
"There are fifteen eggs," she could
not help smiling at his embarrassed
face, "and I have only fourteen hens!"
"Letty," ho cried, with sudden ve
hemence, "I'll take them back. After
dark, I'm coming for the hens, also;
[ can make them lay!
"And tomorrow I am coming for
you, dear. Let us have a happy Eas
ter, sweetheart!"
And there among tho feathered
flock, ho took her in his arms.
"I'll need you, dear," he whispered,
"to count tho eggs!"
Johnny on Earter,
"My dear teacher has asked me to
wrlto a composition on Easter, and I
will, therefore, say that it is a day
when all rejoice. I askod my mother
why we should all rejoice on that day,
and she replied that if she couldn't
have |2 to buy a new hat with a hen'e
feather in It my father would be made
to think a brick houso had struck the
back of his neck.
"I asked father why wo should re
joice and bo glad, and ho said that
if mother didn't do loss gadding And
more home work somebody woidd
hear something drop.
"I think we should all rejoice, how
ever. Spring is here and such of us
as did not freeze to death in the Win
ter are hearing the songs of the rob
ins and roller skating on one foot-4*
"There Is something about Palm
Sunday, hut I do not know just what.
Last year I saw a boy with a palm In
his hand and I asked him why lie
carried it, and he qaid he was learn
ing to be a palmist. This la a world
in which we are all liars, and to I
close by hoping that ma will got
Easter and Christmas mixed up and
have turkey for dinner.? -New Orleans
Picayune
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BOOK TREASURES OF PAST
Immense Sums Invested in the Copy
Ing, lllj^lfuti/iy and Binding of
JSfhem by Hand.
The coat of materials and copying.
Illuminating and binding books by
band made them tbe treasures of rich
collectors and tbe pride of museums,
palaces and convent libraries. Im
mense sums were Id vented In them,
and a rare or unusually original c opy
became * gem In value, as well at
sentiment. Cicero, whose magnificent
library was almost as famous as Its
owner's eloquence, declared that be
bad aeen a parchment roll containing
the entire "Iliad" of Homer, which
was compressed between tbe shells
of a nut, a work of extretoe skill aud
patience, which a French savant, M.
Huet, bait since demonstrated was
within tbe range of possibility. Many
sueb tours de force are said to have
demonstrated the skill of ancient
copyists and their economy parchment
and vellum.
In the eighth century It was with
great difficulty that a monk of the
rich Abbey of Saint Gall, Prance,
gathered piece by piece sufficient
parchment to begin the transcription
of a rare work. Later, in 1120, a monk
employed to prepare a copy of the
Bible could not find in all England
sufficient parchment for the purpose.
? National Magaslne.
CHILD IS A GREAT THINKER
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Juvenile Logic Displayed by the Lit-,
tie Girl Who Wanted a Baby
Brother.
Those who call children thought*
less merely prove that they do not
know* the child nature. Children, as
a matter of fact, are great thinkers.
They only seem lacking in thought to
such of their elders as fail to com
prehend that the childish mind works
differently from that of the adult. Ju
venile logic, for instance, frequently is
faulty judged by grown-up standards,
but just as frequently it is sound and
incontrovertible from its own point
of view,
A thoughtful little girl, for example,
recently put to rout her mother, a
young widow, by a searching fire of
questions founded on the request:
, "Qh, mamma, won't you buy me a
baby brother?"
"You won't understand why I can't
do that for you," the mother finally re
marked, driven Into a corner, "but lit
tle girls who have no fathers cannot
have little brothers and sisters."
"Well, it seems very unreasonable,"
said the child, after a fow moments of
reflection. "Little girls without fath
ers are pretty sure to be lonely, and
that seems all the more reason why
they should have other children In the
| family, doesn't it?"
Rules for Talking Weather.
The English are as Insensible to
their weather as they are to a vast
number of other things. They talk of
i nothing else; but there is yet an arti
ficiality about the conversation that
denotes it to bo a standardized topic.
If genuine feeling and emotion are ex
pressed regarding it by an outsider
they become suddenly touchy, and
what seemed noutral ground on which
differing temperaments could .meet
with perfect amiability is seen to be
no better than a bank of bristling
thistles. It is here that the rules of
the weather game are seen moro
clearly. You may talk of it -to tho
exclusion of everything else; you are
regarded as difficult If you have an
aversion to a certain amount of
speech about it, and yet there are cer
tain things you must never say about
it, or, if you do, you must say them
as though in spite of everything you
would not exchange it for any other
weather in the world, and you would
defend it with your last breath. ? Flor
ida Pier in Harper's Weekly.
Pole's Passion for Gambling.
The trial at Crakow of a Polish ad^
vocate named Stelnfeld who has come
to grief through gambling has been
the occasion of some curious revela
tions about the hold which this vice
has on business men in Austrian Po
land.
Dr. Steinfeld's wife in her endeavor
to keep her husband out of temptation
tried thp plan of never leaving him
out of her sight even when he went
to his office. The lawyer then made
a practice of going to bed early and
rising at 4 In the morning before his
wife was awake in order to hurry off
to the so-called "Monte Carlo" at
Crakow, which he would And still in
full swing at that hour. When stay
ing at hotels during the summer he
would arrange meetings with other
card players In tho bathroom and play
there for hours, while he told his wife
that ho was taking a cold water cure.
In Sox Signo Vlnces.
Judge ? Jones answered an-adven
tlsement and sent a dollar for four
pairs of socks. When they arrived,
Jonas looked them over and ' then
wrote the advertiser:
?? "Socks received. The patterns are
vile. I wouldn't be seen on the street
with them en."
Back came the answer;
"What are you kicking about?
Didn't wo guarantee that you wouldn't
wear them out?"
Useless.
"Your wife has filed suit for divorce
Are you going to contest it?"
"No. It wouldn't do me any good.
I've lost every argument I ever had
with her."? Detroit Free Preai.
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