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mam*. jj?:V^S)ND jjJpBwS* 'i' 'i' One of Helen Keller'* Franks. About this time I found out the use of a key, and one day I locked my mother in the pantry, where she was obliged to remain three hours, as the servants were in a detached part of the house. She kept pounding on the door, while I sat outside on the porch steps and laughed with glee as I felt the jar of the pounding. This most naughty prank of mine convinced my parents that I must be taught as soon as possible. After my teacher, Miss Annie M. Sullivan, came to me, I sought an early opportunity to lock her in her room. I went upstairs with something which my mother made me understand I was to give to Miss Sullivan: but no sooner had I given it to her than I slammed the door to, locked it, and hid the key under the wardrobe in the hall. I could not be induced to tell where the key was. My father was ~r obliged to get a ladder and take my teacher out through the window? much to my delight. Months after I -x * produced the key.?Helen Keller, in the Ladies' Home Journal. Yellow a Popular Color. What is prettier for wear this season than a gown of that delicate yellow tint suggestive of daffodils and crocusses? There is a clearness and daintiness about the shade which sets it j apart from the usual pinks, blues, I mauves and all the other evening colors we have seen so much during the j f entire season. But a yellow gown carries with it the air of being outside the ordinary run of colors. There is I . something just a bit daring in its j selection, for. after all, it is one of tho most trying colors among the many beautiful pale shades possible for din ner and ball gowns. " Yellow promises to become a fad all by itself in a small way, and satins, ' guiles, chiffons and mousseline, rang- | ing Irom dainty primrose to deep tulip j yellow, are displayed to tempt the I feminine eyes. Perhaps one reason ; >~a for its popularity is on account of its many possibilities in combination with tiny paillettes d'or, which just j now take precedence over all the other j spangles known to artistic creators of gowns.?Toledo Times. Work for Clever Fin;m. Deft-fingered home milliners can fashion pretty hats nowadays, but not j cheaply even so, unless they are lucky j ' enough to possess some good lace, for , a it must be remembered fiat this adorn' ment, when used for millinery, must be of the best. Nothing can make up ?> for the abearance of cheap lace in the u. fashioning of a hat. ?-7 But here is a wrinkle to enable clever fingers to do without lace, and obtain an excellent 2nd original ei- ; feet. Get some lace butterflies, which { can be obtained quite inexpensively^ : or some guipure flowers in an easily j separable pattern. Embroider these delicately in pearls and sequins, fob | lowing the pattern and elaborating up- I on it. Apply these gemmed flowers or jpip-v butterflies on a piece of finely tucked chiffon at fairiy regular intervals, and -then star the whole piece with tiny gold cup sequins, and you will find the entire effect excellent to use, either j as a crown or for draping the brim of a hat If for a crown, you might have j a white satin ground to it, but almost j C -prettier would be found several folds ! of tulle or chiffon, to give a transpar- { ?nt effect, with no solid crown at all underneath. This jewel embroidery is ; ^ A delightful work to do, and obtains an expensive and elegant effect at really small cost. Pretty fronts to be worn inside coat- i ees, as well as exquisite drapings for jhA-4ecolletage of evening bodices, can be executecPis somewhat the same fashion, though the changes that may be rung upon it are many. The great extravagance of present day dress really consists to a huge extent in the enormous amount of labor that has I to be bestowed upon every garment to invest it with quite the correct appearance.?New York Commercial Advertiser. Prlnceis Mario of ? k Princess Mar^^yftfe"ufl?ince Wal1^-*^ (JemaxI born a princess of Orleans, is jpb reputed, nowadays., to be the chief j confidant of the King of Denmark. J y . who, like so many more, is highly imIP pressed with the cleverness of the lady. Endless are the stories which are told of the Princess Marie, her brightness and the interest she takes :in political matters. In fact, nothing seems to escape her notice. She reads the papers with care, and | now and again she sends for an editor and asks him to alter his views, if they do not coincide with hers. One of the prettiest stories tcld cf the Princess Marie is conected with the United States. A new American j war ship, one fine day. steamed gaily into the harbor of Copenhagen and was the subject of much interest. The i United States representative, thinking ! It would give pleasure, arranged for members of the royal family to go aboard this particular pride of the ! '-v \ American navy. One of the very first to avail her- j self of this opportunity was, of course, i Princess Marie. Well, Her Highness caught hold of the captain, who was j delighted at finding so clever and viva- j cious a titled visitor to act as guide j for. Nothing tired the Princess. She must see everything! And, to quote the words of one who was there, Her ^ - Royal Highness went everywhere. Finally she found her way to the lockup, and there she found a lot of jolly tars had been celebrating the evening before into ioyous a fashion, had got themselves into trouble, failed to turn * "i:i fimo Up jruiil nucnv ctu i.Lie j/iu^' and had been brought home by the j marines. The usual punishment for this by no ! means unusual sailors' escapade j meant that they were put in irons, and j this accompanied by a very meagre diet. When the Princess Marie saw the j poor Jackies and had heard the story of how they came to such a pitiable position, she forthwith pleaded so eloquently for their release that the captain had nothing left to do but set them free. And you may imagine how j quickly the story flew round and how popular the Princess was with every : man.aboard the man-of-war from that moment out.?New York Herald. Flirtation Fans. All the big fans of painted gauze, ! ostrich plumes and spangled muslin b0i now go way back and lie down in SQmc obsc are corner of the shops, 1 for a new, exceedingly tiny fan, made of feathers, has come into ail their glory and popularity. This gay usurper is called in Paris, whence it very naturally emanates, the Du Barry; by the frivolous debutantes it is considered "cunning," and is privately known 1 as the "flirtation fan." It is a matter of ancient history that i the great Madame du Barry collected j fans, and esteemed those made of | feathers above all others. A really : smart and correct Du Barry is really i no bigger than the hand of a woman of average size when her fingers are j sretched apart to their fullest extent. ; The sticks are of tortoise shell, gilded : and carved ebony, and also of horn, so finely polished and oiled that it is as transparent as amber. Ten sticks ! and two guards is the limit of these j fixe-inch-long fans, and the mounting j is done in small, exquisitely colored ; leathers. Some of the favorites are junglei cock, white hackle, brown argus, blue ! jay. merle, golden pheasant, sea gull j and impeyan. The most expensive and i brilliant of these feather mounts are { done in Brazilian humming bird plum; age, and in that of the American cardinal. grosbeak. There are but few ' work people in Paris who are capable | of making mese fans, for every tiny ' feather is plucked from the dried skin j of the bird and applied to the founda| tion in a design that creates showy I patterns. Another reason for their expense is that many of the birds whose feathers are used for this purpose are rare^ and many are protected by the laws that forbid the killing of songsters. On some of these fans the feathers from the breasts of different birds are combined in wonderful designs, and on one of the guard sticks the owner's initials are usualy inlaid in gold, and the signature of the maker of the fan is scratched on the shell or horn. The only other fan that dares share even modestly the vogue of the Du Barry is an equally smal affair made of extremely choice black ostrich tips. Five only are used, and these are grouped in lyre shape; their stems are cought by a handle of rough gold, in which baroque pearls and secondary jewels are sunk in semi-barbaric fashion.?Washington Star. Ffininiiie Sex Brj?ve*t. A Chicago dentist has observed the distinctive character Oi. men and women who occupy his chair from day to day and has gatnered some interesting facts. "The actions of a man in my chair are as different from those <}f a woman as day is from night," he said. "In the first place a woman will present herself at the pointed time, trembling perhaps, but determining to see it through, no matter hew great the pain may be. She gets into the chair, settles back against the headrest, and though she may flinch when the nerves are aggravated, she will not utter one word of complaint. "A man comes in maintaining a blustering, bravado attitude and gets into the chair with so much apparent resignation and determination that if you ever had seen a man in a dentist's, office before you would declare he was a woman's superior in point of bravery at every point. But just wait. The minute you begin to hurt him you hear something, and this something depends upon the religious tendencies of the particular man. If he is profane he swears, and if he is not given to profanity he uses language so close to 3 violation of moral law that it is rather hard to draw a distinguishing lino The woman will go through the first operation and when told to come back the fclovingday will agree to do so. What is more, she will keep her word. But a man will go away gnashing his teeth, and the chances are you won't see him again for a week. You have to use all sorts of means to get him back. The fact of the matter is he hasn't the courage to undergo a repetition of the pain to which lie has ben subjected. "There is another great difference between men and uomen which involves personal pride. If a woman has bad teeth she wants them treated in the best possible way, no matter how much physical suffering is involved. She will sit for a whole day and subject herself to,any sort of treatment in order to have a crooked tooth straightened or some other natural defect rem 'edied. This, of course, is largely a matter of pride, but a man won't do it. He wants good work, certainly, but he wants it done in the least painful manner, and isn't so particular about his personal experience that he is wiling to endure 'torture' to bring about the result. "In justice to the men it must be said that in case of sudden shock they have more nerve than women. This is evident in the pulling of a tooth. A man stands this ordeal better than a woman, but where endurance enters into the operation, he is not her equal in point of nerve in any respect." *?*) Fo Fine black silk openwork stockings are worn with low shoes. Oriental laces are especially well adapted to the present style of hat trimming. Lace collars and cuffs now come in sets comprising a high neck collar, a round or sailor collar, and cuffs to match. A white linen collar to be worn with shirtwaists fastens at the back, and has a turnover nnisn, wiui a pumi, m | the front. Umbrella and parasol handles decorated with artificial cherries on stems and some foliage are again popular for summer use. Black pearls form the heads of some j of the prettiest new hatpins. StickI pins of gray or black pearls are worn with evening gowns. Nearly all the newest belt buckles are intendevl for wear with dip front waists. Butterfly designs are popular in jet steel, and gilt. A French whim is a powder puff concealed in a bouquet of flowers, which are perfumed and wonderfully realistic in appearance. The demand for red hats has led to the introduction of the black veil with red dots or figures. The figures are small in size and brilliant in color. Hats made entirely of Irish lace, sewed on wire frames are popular and effective. These are unlined and need only a little floral ornament to b" ready for use. A black and white checked silk I waitst is finished with a line of red ! silk on the collar, more of it out- ; lining the opening at the front, and there are small red buttons SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A Hamburg chemist is reported to have discovered a fluid which, when j added to water, produces a liquid that cannot be distinguished from petrol- j eum, and that can be used for heating as well as lighting. Heat exercises a powerful influence or rocks deeply buried below the j earth's surface, chiefly by means of i heated water and steam. In this way rocks have been very much altered or "metamorphosed." The crystalline j schists have thus been brought to ' their present state by a series of I chemical changes due to lieat, and | there is no doubt that they were once ordinary deposits of clay, sand etc, The smallest vertebrates hitherto j known have been several species of i little fishes in the southern states, the i shortest being somewhat less than an , inch in length. A new species of goby, | to be known as Mistichthys luzoncnsis, j is reported from Lake Buhl, in south- ! ern Luzon, and is even smaller, its I average length being only about half 1 an inch. A surprising fact is that , this tiny species is a food fish of sonic . importance. Great numbers are couglit in the lake, and with peppers or other | spiced herbs they are prized by tha j natives. j The transplanting of big trees on ! the world's fair site at Sc. Louis is an interesting work. A deep trench is ! cut around the tree- four or five feet j from its base, and the earth dug away beneath. Then a huge truck Is backed up to the tree and securely fastened; The entire tree, 40 or 50 feet high, is then tipped over oh the truck and an- j other pair of wheels attached in front. (. Then with sufficient teams to pull the heavy load the tree is drawn to the j place where wanted and restored to ! an upright position. Much care is re- i quired in the work, and the trees will ! receive constant attention until again j well rooted. M. Thoulet has shown by expori- j ment-s that in fresh water fragments j nf mimirp <->f thp size of a grain of 1 wheat sink at the end of two or thre* days, while fragments of the size of ; a walnut require two or three months before they become waterlogged, j These experiments he has lately re- ; peated with salt water of a density ! of 1.0244 at 21 degrees centigrade, and ! his results indicate that if Ihc frig- j ments of pumice found on the ocean bed were of subaerial formation they J mirst have floated 'or incredibly long j periods, and he attributes the great j majority of such fragments to sub- : marine volcanoes and concludes that j the pumice has never floated at the surface at all. Professor Tvndall used to explain to ; popular audiences, with the aid of a brilliant experiment, that the blue j color of the sky is owing to floating particles of invisible dust, that break ; up and scatter (he short waves, which j are the blue waves of light. This, as I a recent writer in Knowledge shows, | occurs principally at a great eleva- i tion, where the atmospheric dust is j extremely fine, while in the lower re- | gions of the air, where the dust is coarser, the scattering affects all the rays or colors alike. The bril- j liant fringes of clouds, seen nearly in j ho Hiro^tinn r>f thp snn are largely I due to dust, which especially accumu- j lates in the neighborhood of clouds, j and refracts the sunlight around their edges. Ax lo Cooking Shrimp. "It is astonishing," said an oldtimer, "to find that so many cooks in this section make the most grievous mistake in cooking shrimp. Now, I I am a regular shrimp fiend, and have ' ccme co the conclusion that I know { something about how shrimp ought to ! te prepared, at least from the standpoint of the consumer. I was asking one of the well-posted men in Royal street the other day how long it cook ! tc boil shrimp. His answer was that, j as a rule, shrimp are boiled 20 minutes. There rs, however, no fixed j time limit. . "Shrimp are of a bluish color naturally, a sort of a leaden hue, when tak- j en from the lake or the river. When | they are served ac the table they are oi a pretty yellowish color. Good j cooks have told me that they should j be taken out of the water as soon as i they turn yellow, and I am inclined to i believe that this is the proper idea. The complaint I have to make is that ! a majority of cooks allow them to ; toil too long, and hence it becomes a tedious and difficult matter to peel j them. This is particularly true of the smaller river shrimp. If they are ! served hot it is not so difficult a matter to peel them after too much boil- ' ing. But I prefer cold shrimp, thor- j oughly iced, when served, and my ex- j perience is that too much cooking ! greatly interferes with the process cr? i eating shrimp, and this is why I make the complaint. They break and crum- ; ble, and it is almost impossible to peel ! them, and since I pride myself on my ; expertness in this line. I do not want | my shrimp cooked too much."?New ; Orleans Times-Democrat. The Apple. The apple is the world renowned j fruit of temperate climates.. From the most remote periods it has been ' the subject of praise among writers and poets, and ine old mythologies all j endow its fruit with wonderful virtues, j The allegorical tree of knowledge bore j apples and the celebrated golden fruit, j of tne orchards of Hesperus, guarded i by the sleeples dragon, which it was } one of the triumps of Hercules to slay, were also apples, according to the old legends. Among the heathen gods of the north there were apples fabled to pos- ; sess the power of conferring immor- } tality. I>e<lintr FUh. The trout is the most easily fed cf all fisn. being greedy, omnivorous, and i not afraid .of artificial ood, such as j bread or paste. But the kind of food with which it is supplied makes a ; difference in its growth. Experiments made on trout showed that when fed upon worms only they grow slowly; j ethers fed on minnows did better, but i a single fish fed upon insects weighed twice as much at the end of the experi- ! ment as a pair of those reared upon ! worms and minnows respectively.? I Lippincott Magazine. Bernhardt ni?rfcaiil? Health Killed. Mme. Bernhardt says that "the se j cret of her endurance is tnat she nev "r rests. "Fatigue " she adds, "is mj timulant. Instead of pulling me dowr t. spurs me on." She goes to bed at i in the morning invariably, and al j ways rises at 9. As for the usual pre ^criptions for the preservation o ! health, they receicve scant attentioi J from her. i It takes more than a dentist to kill; the nerve of some people. * TYBKE BY THE SEA. The Most Delightful Seashore Resort On the South Atlantic Coast. Low Rate Excursion Ticket< are now on sale at all ticket offices on the Centra! of Georgia Railway. For full particulars, rates, schedules, etc., a?k the nearest Agent. F. J. Robinson, Asst. Geii'l. Pas's. Agent, Savannah, OA.; J. C. Haile, Gen. Pass. Agelit, Savannah, Ga. Love letters are eagerly scanned bf the male inspectors. Use Allen's Foot-Ease. It Is the only euro for Swollen, Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, Swoating Feet,Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Easo, a powder to bo shaken into the shoes. Cures while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Sample .sent Free. Addres?, Al&no. Olmsted, LoRoy, N.Y. On a hot day the animals in the Union Stockyards of Chicago have been known to drink 7,000,000 gallons of water. FITS permanently cured. No fits omervousress nfterflrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat KeiYtUeslorer.t2iiIal bottle and treatisefree I t. 11. H. Ki.ink, Ltd.. t'31 Arch St.. Phila., Pa. It is natural that the medical student should be quite a cut-up. We will givo $100 reward for any caae of catarrh that cannot bo cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. .Taken Internally. F. J. Cheney ?V Co., Props., Toledo, 0. If all women arc riddles, the plainer they are the more readily the men give them up. Mrp.Wirslow'sFcothingSyntpfof fihlldrtiti tretInjip,soften theg* ms-.reducesinrtaramnd pain,cures wind colic. 25c; abottU Some men arc too busy t6 make friends-, and others ftre too hazy to make enemies. Fiso's Ctife cannot be too highly spoken of rs ti echgh cure.?X. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Avenue, 2v., Minneapolis, Minu., Jan. C, 1D03 Fine feathers may not make fine birds, but tlicy make a girl feel like one. H. IT. Crkfn'S SONS, of Atlanta, (}?.. are tlio only m veajdul Dropsy spre.nllsts in the world. See Hvir ijhernl tT?r In advertisement in anothor column of his paper. Gold pens were first made in 1840. Their sale to-day is 1,500,000 a year. 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We buy an I sell Texas lar.cK Cut till- out: It may not appear air in. TEXAS INVESTMENT COMPANY, Suite 201, Bluz B'ldg. Box 47, Houston, Texas. PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT If you ca i (or think you can) solicit LIFE 1/NSimA/NeE, Write {with references) for terms to R. F. SliEDDHN, Manager, Atlanta, Ga. 'I lie Mutii '.l I.lfe Insurance Company of New York.?Assets over $352,000,000.(0. nn JOHNSON'SCV>" Halts V aV'w " - rmz samfle. HtHt HOME REMEDY CO.. AUSTELL IO.KO , ATLAXTA.OA. In Dolly Lnnd. What do you think of Dolly Land, Little stiff trees on either hand, With sugar plums all hanging round And lying thickly on the ground. Between the houses in a row The wooden horses prancing go Or armies of tin soldiers como With gleaming spears and beat of drum. The strangest things you hear aDd see In Dolly Land so far away, And no one sends you oiT to bod When you would rnihor play instead. ?Chicago Kt'cord-Herald. Bird*' Wonderful Foretliotijjllh In a small Connecticut village ft pair of sparrows made their nest in a tree and their work oh their home was watched with interest by many people. Between two wooden factories arc a pond and a mill-race. The water in the latter rubs very swiftly. Beside trie Upper mill and leaning Oveb the race is a small tree its branches bending almost lb ihe surf a be of the Waters. The sparrows were noticed closely examining the tree; and shortly after the inspebtibii they We be seed constructing a nest in a fork in one of the branches directly over the race. Hundreds of eyes watched the birds at work from the windows of the factory. The spot where the sparrows' home was being built was so exposed and yet so inaccessible it was safe from the small boy and the prowling pussy. When the nest was almost completed, those who happened to be watching the birds saw them suddenly quit work. They chirruped for a few moments and then began to remove the nest,'bit by bit. The nest was discovered later in a thick clump of alders a short distance from terra firma. It was self evident that the first idea of the birds had been to place their nest out of harm's way. The rushing waters of the mill stream made their home safe. The sparrows must have looked into the future and thought of the time when their little ones would be learning to fly and to what v^ould occur to them if they fell into the swiftly running waters. Mr. Redaquirrel. Mr. Rersquirrel came home late that evening, and Mrs. Redsquirrel naturally wanted to know why. "My dear/' he spluttered, "I'd have been home a long time ago; but just as I came to the foot of Our tree there was old Mrs; Hen squatting among the j roots, with her little ones playing in the grass about her. I tried to explain courteously; but she is not like you, my dear, she wouldn't listen to reason. She thought that I had come to kidnap one of her darlings. 'Cut, cut, cut, cut, and run!' she cried; and she looked so angry and there were little red rings around her eyes, and her feathers were all fluffed up. "I didn't know what to do. The Greyfur's dooryard, as you know, my dear, is nearest to our own; but I hardly like to climb up their tree, as our families have not been on squeaking terms since the fight last February. But while I was peeking from behind a big plantainleaf, and trying to muBter up courage to make one dash for home, I risking the terrible tailons and beak, to my great relief I heard Mrs. Hen calling her little ones to come to bed. And they came up out of the grassnot nearly so steady on their little legs, my dear, as our babies? and nestled beneath her, and when I thought it was quite safe I tiptoed out from my hiding place. "Yes. Mrs. Hen's eyes were closed, quite closed; and she was quietly sleeping. So I just gathered my limbB together, and sprang clean over her, landing on the bark of the tree with claws outstretched; and she jumped up in a rage as I whizzed by, but it was too late. And, if you listed, my dear, you can still hear Mrs. Hen scolding me down below there for showering ->*< ~C T ner wun niue pieces ui uain. no * scampered up the trunk."?Christian Register. /pron? for Little Glrln. When the little girls wear aprons nowadays they never give a thought to how ornamental or becoming they are, but they put them on because mamma'or nurse wishes to protect their pretty clothes, but when there is company in the parlor and mamma Bends for them, ?the aprons are laid aside, and there they are in their nice fresh dresses, unhurt by their rompihg. But long ago, when their greatgrandmothers were young, aprons were considered a very Important piece of clothing. iJo lady's wardrobe was complete without a goodly supply of aprons. They were made by the dozen in every style and design?gold and silver brocade aprons, aprons wrought with gold, "minute" aprons worn it - * * " * ' J J A that gooa oia-iasmoneu uauce ttuu coquettishly trimmed with bows and lace to suit the fancy of the wearer, and there was gauze aprons and lawn embroidered aprons, and lessons were given and patterns sold for embroidering them. There is no telling how long ago aprons came into fashion; they were doubtless among the many things that came from England in the Mayflower. Queen Anne wore them, and, of course, her loyal subjects folowed her example, and it is probable that the eariy colonial dames put them to sterner use in the pioneer days. If some enterprising person undertook to hunt up and classify the various styles of aprons he would find his work as difficult as the compiling of a dictionary. They have been put to so many uses requiring variety in size and shape that volumes might be written about them. Ladies and children alike wear I them even now, but the days of ornaI ment are over?the apron of fashion is j no more.?New York Tribune. Atlopren inn rniiimu. There are imitators everywhere, but the dog, whose doings are recorded in 1 Popular Science News was possibly one ! of the best canine mimics on record, j His name was Scot, and he was a puppy ! newly introduced into a certain family j circle. In a neighboring house lived i Rab, a dog that had grown to an age of dignity and responsibility. At first the older dog ignored the puppy, which in appearance was alj most an exact counterpart of himself. ! Then the two became firm friends. I Scot was an attenda.nt waiting on Rab's every movement. They a:e together, slept together and hunted together. They were also as one in barking at passing teams. Now barking at times was forbidden, and brought, many whippings: but the temptation was strong, j and the master and mistress were not j always present. The sight of the hose | cart Whirling past one day, with rattle arid clatter, was a challenge which i#? high-spirited dog could resist, it gavi Rab ah opportunity to show hie y<?ang friend how close to a flying hose-cart it is possible to run with impunity. Alas for his pride! He ran an inch too near or the car swerved slightly, for the wheels passed over one of Rab's paws. Although the injury was scie* tifically treated, Rab was ever after forced to go on three legs, and hold the injured paw suspended. Now appeared Scot's imitative powers. He noticed Rab's changed method of locomotion, and, like the thorough courtier he was, immediately adopted the new gait He was so clever in his imitation that it was difficult to tell ! which dog went lame from necessity ! and which limped because he thought it desirable and graceful. Close observa- I tion, however, showed that Scot's shapely paw' lacked the helpless hang of the older dog's wounded member, and that the shuCy cOck bf his ears was at variance with the mourhful hang &f Rab's; Sc&t was a consistent cheat, alwdys holding up the sanie paw that Rab did, and nevet forgettiftg his voluntary lamehess except oh occasions of great excitement, when he was in too great a nurry naving iour legs, 10 conuue hi&self to the use of three. ^'hen Hel?*nii Va< "You couldn't help loving little Helena, even if you tried, she is so sweet and lovable and loving. And just because she is so sweet and lovable and loving nobody ever tries. One of the sweetest things about little Helena is here sincere unselfishness, and the way she tries to make other people happy. One of the things that trouble her most is the knowledge that all the little girls in Chicago cannot have the nice, pretty, comfortable garments and trifles her parents so dearly love to buy for her. If she had her way?but listen to what she did last week. Last Monday her mother went shopping, and when she came home she brought for Helena one of the dearest, prettiest little fur sets?muff and collar and little fur-trimmed mittens?you can think of. And the pretty things were as warm as they were charming. Helena fairly danced the first time she put them on, she was so delighted. Then Wednesday came, and the washerwoman. And when the washerwoman's little girl came, about 6 o'clock, to walk home with her mother she had no muff, no mitten and nothing at all about her neck, she wa3 so cold and shivering that the sigr\t 01 ner worried little Helena terribly. So He* lena left the candy she was making and fleW off upstairs in search of hef neW fuf ''pretties." I'hat evening when Helena's mother came back from another shopping trip Helena told her that she had given the new "pretties" away. "Jessie needed them worse than i did* mother," said Helena, earnestly. "We will give the poor child something else to keep warm with," said Helena's mother, "but I can't let you give those things away dearie. I had only just bought them for you." "But she took them away with her, mother,'" cried Helena. "She must -have done for I gave them to her mother, and just rushed out of the kitchen so that she couldn't give them back to me. And it seems as if it would be just awful to make her bring them back." "Well, well, well!" said Helena'9 mother. She really couldn't think of j anything else to say. Rut np*t morninz she sent a little note to the washerwoman, explaining that she would like to see her, and the washerwoman called on her way home that night "It's about those furs you'll be wantin' to see me, ma'am," she said quietly. "Sure I clean forgot to say a word to anyone about them, but I couldn't let my gurl take them from your dear little baby. So I slipped them inside the top drawer Of the kitchen dresser, ma'am, an' there you'll find them!" And there they were sure enough when Helena's mother went to look for them, and when she took them out of the drawer she couldn't help thinking of the poor little girl to whom Helena had tried to give them, and?well, I dare say you can guess what happened, can yOu not? She made the washerwoman take them home to her little girl after all, and the next day she went down town and bought another set for Helena, and Helena who is doing without the new doll buggy that had been promised her to pay for them, likes the last set much better than she did the first. Don't you think you'd be likely to.feel that way if you were in Helena's place?? Chicago RecOrd-Herald. New York'? Market? the llesf. "People send or come from everywhere to New York for good things to j eat." said a market man, "just as they - ? 4 ! do for silks and satins and jewels, ana ! for the same reason?because hers they find the best of everything, attracted her naturally because this is the best market. "Fish and game and delicacies of one I sort and another are shipped from here j to great distances; and city customers i in many cases when they go away in j the summer have the good things of various sorts that they have been aci customed to get here sent after them [ wherever they go. And this results in j some curious shipments. "For instance, a New York dealer in green vegetables shipped regularly all through one season green corn to one of the custojners who spent the summer in Europe, the corn thus sent bej Ing carried across the ocean in the refrigerator rooms of the steamers on which it was shipped. The same dealer had one year a customer in Charleston, 3. C., to whom he sent green corn regularly."?New York Sun. Femlinc Chicken* by Alarm Clock. Walter Bernard, ^ome months ago, secured a small tract of land on Chamber's prairie a few miles east of Olympia. and stocked the place with a few dozen chickens. As he is compelled to be away from home during the day, he studied out a scheme for caring for his chickens during his absence. In each yard he has erected troughs to hold food for the hens and these troughs are connected by wire **? ? t- ii. - i A,r? With MS nouse. Wiium LUC Iiuusc itai. Bernard has connected the wire with an alarm clock, with the usual battery attachment. When he leaves home in tne morning he sets the alarm clock at. the hours for feeding the chickens, and by an ingenious arrangement, when the proper time arrives, the alarm goes off. the connecting wire releases the troughs and the chickens make a rush for their feed, which is spread before them as if Mr. Bernard did the job in person.?Morning Oregonian. The authorities of Aix-la-Chapelle recently sentenced to two weeks imprisonment a man who carelessly threw away a lighted match in a forest near that city, although no damage was caused by the act; MUCH PLBAfiANTBR, "Prosperity has mined many a inan." 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