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STANDS BY COOK A Ural Schley Calls Upoo Peary to Sobout His Data to Danes. WHO REJECTED COOK'S He Reaffirms Hlo Confidence in the Brooklyn Kxplorer and Declares That the Hame Men Who Repudiated Cook's Records Should Al w Pas* Upon Peary's 1*1*00#. Reaffirming his complete confidence in Dr. Cook. Rear Admiral W. b. ftchley, retired, Wednesday called publicly upon Commander Peary to, submit bis proofs that he reached the North Pole to some scientific body other than the National Geographic Society. This the Admiral decalres, should be done at once in the in tercels of justice and to establish beyond question the claims of Peary. Tho Admiral believes that the same body which threw out and repudiated Cook's data should be permitted to pass upon the data submitted by Peary to tho Geographic Society. "The Danos nro the best posted body of men in tho world on Arctic matters," he said. "The consistory of the University of Copenhagen should be given the opportunity to examine tho Peary proofs, for la that way they would be submitted to the same tost that waa applied to those of Cook." Moreover, Admiral Schley, believes that the submission of the proof to Copenhagen should bo Insisted upon by Peary, despite whatevor the National Geographic Society's attitude may be. AHtnlrn) ftfhlfiv itixrllnnil tr> uav On what ground** he took exception to the finding of the scientist** of the Ualrsralty of Copenhagen that Cook had not been at the North Pole. He merely reafllruied his belief in the explorer, adding that he ?believes aU# that Peary, too, had gained the to# of the earth. The importance of the Admiral's demand is increased by the fact that he has had wide expericuco in the far North. In 1884 he was in command of the Thetis expedition, which resulted in the rescue of Lieut. Greeley and six men who had been cant away at Cape Sabine, and whom the civlllred world had practically given up for lost. For his rescue, Schley, then a captain in the service* was awarded a gold watch and a rote of thanks by the Maryland T^efialAture, and a modal of honor bjr the Massachusetts Humane Society. Members of the National Geographic Society declined to discuss the suggestion of the retired naval ' officer. The Society la wtill smartin# undor the somewhat curt reply , made by the University of Copenhagen to its request that a com in Ittoe representing the Society be permitted to be present when Dr. Cook's data was examined. DRANK POISONED llOOZE. Owe Man Read and Anotlier Very 111 Prom the Htnff. Samuel Hogan ia dead and a negre ia In a serious condition at Starke, Fla., from drluklng whiskey that la alleged to have been poisoned. The whiskey was sent to John Bennett, a well known resident, and ia the package was the following notet "From a friend, wishing a happy Christmas." Mr. Bennett sent the negro to the express office for tho package, giving hlin a drink upon his return. Flo then passed tho bottle to Hotan, who drank. Tho bottle was next passed to Mr. Bennett's son, who drank. Presently all throe wore suddenly i!l and Hogan d,ied fbefore medical aid reached him. Tho tv^y ta l>etter, but tho nogro Is In a daagerous condition. Tho package was shipped from Jacksonville and the authorities are now Investigating the ease. j Jealousy Cause* Tragedy. A triple murder and suicide occurred at Pittsburg, Ky., a mining village, Wednosday when Wjllliain Murray, a miner, shot and Killed hfs wife and her mother and Elbert * /*.!. V. I ..I# If....... .KU/. uuin cum u i iilc>t711 iti uh iij * uujci;tio*8 to the allog<><\ attention of Oole to Mrs. Murray are given as the euase of the crimes. Killed by Native. At Bombay, Britlah India, Arthur Maeon Tippetta Jackson, chief mas>iotrnte of Naslk, waa assassinated while attending a theatrical performance Wednesday. The motive far the murder waa a wish for ro* venge upon the magistrate, who sentenced a criminal to life imprlaonv meat. (Children Homed. At Chicago. 111., John Corrodio, aged seven, Charles Oorrodio, aged two; Mary Corrodio, aged four, were horned to death when their home eaoght fire during the parents' ab seoeo Mondey. ?' ) RULE OP THE OCA. Wbating Law Applied ta a Twtoi Caught Catf. That etiquette Is observed wnni the laharnes that journey to ?ba ttsli lag vas discovered bj aa ana'ai angler bis first trip the ether day The aaaateur hooked a eedfish. bu hi* Use parted Just as the fish wai above the water. Back fell the codfish carrying with trina two eiakers aiu the hook. Tweaty minutes later another sag ler cried out that be had captured i cod with two sinkers sad a hook The amateur went up to the angler who appeared to be an old salt an< asked for his book and sinker*, whlci had bis nafflo stamped on tboxa. H< was surprised whou the old salt toh biuj to take the fish also. According to the rules generally fnl lowed on the fishing boat* the seoorx angler was entitled to the Ash, bu the hooka mod sinkers should be re turned to their owner. The old sugV explained why he waited to gtv* uj the flub. It Eeems that he had followed tin sea a great pert of his life. Wnen s young man he was a whaler acid according to whaling taw, s dead whaU belongs to the ship whose acme up pours on the harpoon that killed It Therefore the old salt figured that tin amateur owned the codttah u? hut taken. A Big 'Gator Skinned. An alligator considerably over soret feet In length attracted much atton tion while lying In front of Fire IV partraeiit Headquarters, where it wai shinned by several colored firemen The "gator was a beautiful epHmcr of Its klud, with a well-preserved hin? and a beautiful head, according to th< standard by which our alligator* ar< judged. The reptile whs shot on tht Uugau plant alios, about thirty-sir miles north of Charleston, on th? Cooper Klver, by Stephen Fraser keeper of the Hagan tract, famous foi the splendid hunting opportunities which it presents and for its lumbei preserves. The rtlle ball which put an end to the alligator entered th* skull, and left only a small mark which was hardly to be noticed with out close observation. The colored firemen who "peeled" the 'gator took care that the steam situated near the Lit! of the animal were not lost. Thin portion of the a!M gator anatomy Is coiiKhlered as an ex ception&lly choice morsel hy colored people.?Charleston N?w? snU ('our. ier. The Compass. Tho Chinese to have used the compass, or Its erjnlvalent, at a very early date to guttle them In t.heli Journeys across the vast plains or Tartary. They m?;de little Images, whose arm. moved hy n freely suspended magnet. pointed continually toward the pole. An rippaiHtiiH of thin kind was presented to ambassadors from Cochin, China, to soldo tJheji In their homeward Journey, some 1.1 (hi years before our era. The knorwledg* thus possessed seems to have jcndually traveled westward hy mrvnn o! the Arabs, though It was folly 2.00" years afterward before It w.ra falrb applied among the people* of Wenter Htirope. Availability. A nobleman wan once showlnx a friend a rare collection of pree.looc stones which he had gathered at h great expense an.t enormous tmoun* of labor. "And yet," be said, "they yield o?e no Income." His friend replied. "Come with iu? and I will show you two stones which cost me hut Juf? eocb, yet they yield me a considerable Income." He ?ouk the owner of the gem* to his grlst'oill and pointed to two gray millstone* which were si way* busy grtadiuj out grist The Llama's Load. When the llama Is too b???vf>y loaded, about 12f? pound*. the wine beast lies down right then and the <* and goes on a strike and refuse* ?r bodge a peg despite any amount o4 coaxing, beating or swearing actual ly knows the weight Ids burden should he almost to an ounce, or that's what they all say in tiie Andes. Most tuer know when they are overloaded, uu? tboy are afraid to lie down. Macaroni. The word is derived from the Macaroni Club, instituted by a set of flashy men who had traveled in Italy, and introduced Italian "Maccberonl* at A1 mack's table. The Macaronis ware the most exquisite fopa that urn disgraced the name of man?vicious insolent, gamblers, drunkards, duel lers; abont 7T3 the curse of the Vnu* hall Gardens. Pity the Poor Horse Ply. Every purchaser of a motor car dls courages the life of the horse fly Some sort of a bug or fly will have tr be invented to bite auto* and iwalti them stamp, switch their tails, am! kick up. We don't know what efTc a cinder beot!e would have en auto* The question is referred to Jud<? Adna P. Gristleboue for an cxper opinion.?Osnawatomie (FCan.) Glob*Martyrs to Scfeoee. At Ideben. during the plague, Pr canars reetana w?? Infedod wm'. searching for plague In a person any posed to have died of pneumonia 1 was plague; sad the Intrepid search* died also, Ho wrote down his hit lihle symptoms to the very oad. foi (ho benefit of nodical science. Victim's WaM. ftfi all right for a woman to *ar? time, but making cherry pies with th? stones la 'em Is a poor way to do H ?Detroit Free Press. \ COMET COMING K AstriBiKti Cisiilc FUatn&r'u fays i r is Ntw Trafcliif t ? I WITH EKORKCUS SFLID j. 1 J u?t Now the Path of the Krruti< Visitor In Directed Both Townnli J the Karth and the Bun, lint I ! Will Soon Draw Awujr From th A Earth. t1 Camilla Flamarhnon, the distln 1 I gulshod French astronomer, write; r of Halley's cornet to The Now Yorfc p Herald an follows: Halley's comet the arrival of which 1 waa permit | ted to witness by quite a celeatla favor on the photographic platci of Heidelberg University, on Sep lember 12, la advancing rapidly toward the earth. At that time It war i 522 million kilo mo tern from us; thh I distance has been reduced to 2 2( million, which la about the distune* of the orbit of Mare to the eun The comet then has come about thro* i hundred million kilometers closer tr us in seventy-six days, which glvtv it an averuge speed of 3,890,001 ' kilometers, or very nearly four mil lion kilometers a day. Truly a pret 1 ty fair speed! That speed, too, wil! * go on Increasing according as tin comet draws nearer to the aun. Just now the comet's path Is dl j * reefed toward both the sun and tin earth. After tho middle of Decern her, while Htlll speeding onwurd . toward the sun, It will draw uwa> s from our planet. Hater on, how ever, It will again move toward tin earth through the combination ol ? Its elliptic orbit with the almost , circular path which the terrestrial globe describes every year around the radiant heat center of tho solar system. As a pale nebula. Invisible even | 1 by means of the most powerful Instruments, perceptible only by th< photographic eye, the cornet passed, In the middle of September, from the 17th to the 10th maguitudo. By the middle of October It had roach ed the lMh, and at the beginning <ji ^uvt'iDocr mt; i u o. 11 naa now reached the 13th magnitude, and its movement#* are follow <>d punct?iully 1 by the powerful Instruments of the observatories. tlvon Its apectrul analysis already has been counnen<v od. ' The comet should on April 20 t reach the point of its nearest approach to the sun, its perihelion 90,. 1 000,000 kilometers from the solar sphere. Its spee<l is then 5 4,000 meters a second, 3,2 40 kilometers a minute, or 194,4 4 4 kilometers an hour. Bathing in the effluvia of the electric, colorific, luminous radiation of the sun, it becomes luipreg nated with its rays, undergoing in its whole being fantastic transformations whiah W.d it prodigious , glory, develop it by multiplying, ten times, a hundred times, its volume lengthening it to millions and mi) Hons of kilometers by a kind of phosphorescence which alwayH is extend??d away from the sun and giv??j? rise to the formidable talls^which filled with terror the souls of our ancestors. Thenceforth the wanderer's path takes it away from the ardent cn' ter to sink into the deserts of immensity, gradually diminishing in size, becoming a sort of tnvisiloe I bubble, and finally to find again the night of its aphelion In which for j years and years It Is lost to the eyei of astronomer* on the earth- It i gooe away to a distance of Ave thousand million kilometer*. Into the ultra Neptunian night. In which Its speed la gradually decreased to l^ss than a kilometer per secood The total duration of Its circuit la sixtyfive years. After leaving Its perihelion the oomet, traveling away from the sun again approaches the terrestrial or bit. Vp to the time It reaches 1's perihelion?that Is,until April 21It will be a morning star, visible In the oast before tho sun rises. It becomes an eventng atar after the perihelion and will be visible In iho west after aunset. Quite probably It will tw> thou verv r?m?rl/?tiU < L It was Id the spring of 1966, at the time of th#? Conquest of C.island, and ?n (ho spr'ng of 1456, :?* the period of the wars of the Turks > and the Christians directed hy Mahomet II and Tope Callztus III This time possibly It Is t> /tU" us a surprise on the after effects of which It Is difficult to theorize. According to the calculations of several astronomers who are now occupied by the special orbit of the comet during its present opposition, It may pass before the sun about May 18. Mr. Crommelln, in England, and Mr. Searle, In America, agree with the calculations of others on this position. At that date the head of the eomet will be twenty-six million kilometers away from us. Now, the comet's tails are often rhirtv, forty or fifty million kilometers in length and they are al . wavs extended away from the eun. ? Thl* Immense appendix then might . hr. might envelope us for sev?ril hours. What will be the result of this meeting of HQcb an tmmersiou? Without going again over the ground 1 covered in my work on the subject. "l.a Fin due Monde," or | discussing the various forius which a cometury encounter with our wandering visitor ml?ht present from the mechanical, physical, chemical and thermodynamic viewpoints, we may at once ocknewledge that we know nothing of the fato reserved for us next May. The poisonlug of humanity by deleterious gases Is lmprol?able. p I>oubtless of the oxygen of the A atmosphere combined with the hydrogen of the comet's tail it would t mean universal death with short shrift. If, on tho contrary, there resulted a diminution in the supply of nitrogen tho brain of every one of us would experience an uncxpect ed sensation of physical activity and 4 the human ruco would come to a sudden end in a paroxysm of Joy. universal dellrum and madness, at bottom, probably, overjoyed at Its - fate. Carbonic oxide, ou the eon1 trary, would cause universal pole 4 oning of the lungs. Spectral analya. Is has not yet shown us what are . the chief elements In tho tall of the , comet. Hydroearbonic combinations 4 of nitrogen are frequent. ; Prom photographs and analyses . made last year at my Juvlsy observatory, by Messrs. Quenisset, do la . Haunio-Pluvlnel and Baldet of tho , Morehouse comet electricity scorns 4 to play tin important part In tho ) strange dislocations observed. There exists there a formidable electrostatic field, and electro-inagnetic. I forces have added their Influence to , the repulsive force of the sun. Anxious minds have, however, no reason to be tormented ? uselessly, ? too?by these prognostications. Comet tails, It Is true, are immense, I but they are so light, as rarlfied, , that the terrestrial atmosphere Is like l<*ad In comparison. Even were . our glol>o completely plunged into > such a tail we would, without doubt, ))( HMvr?rl frrM" " ""' ? ?? ' 1 ? . .. u IOUU IJMII uy mo I atmospheric curtain which surrounds uh. The oomot might l>o compared to a fog through which a locomotive was dashing at full speed. A shower of shooting stars might, perhaps, fall silently In the high regions of our sky, or we might he treated to the illumination of un immense aurora l>oreluia. lloaideH. the earth baa twice within the last hundred years passed through the tall of u comet without being troubled thereby. This wuh in 1819 and in 1K61. Let U8 hope that it will he the same this time. For Americana the passing of the comet In-fore the sun will take plnce during the day. It will be night in France. In both conditions the phenomenon will he Interesting to obaerve. It la not, however, certain that this phenomenon will be produced. The calculations are not yet finished. Let uh live In peace. A YOl'NU WHITK FIKNI> In Ixxlgcil |d Luurens Jail Under Kcrioas (/horse. A dispatch from Laurens says Roy Wood, a young white uiun connected with the bent people in Sulll van's Township, was lodged in Juil on the charge of attempted assault upon the person of a young white girl, possibly 16 years of uge. The alleged crime la said to have been committed last Thursday morning According to statements of the officers, It seems that the young woman bad gone to the pasture not far from the house to take the cows for the day. Young Wood, who had been at the home of the girl a few minutes before, heard the instructions given by the mother about the oows and made his way by a roundabout path to the pasture. The young woman when attacked screamed and ran to the house, where an older sister was, the rest of the family having meanwhile gone to Honea Path Some neighlvors were notified and for a while trouble seemed Imminent. Constable Aboroomble, armed with a warrant' for the young man's arrest, apprehended hlrn at his home Saturday afternoon. He was kepi by the constable until Monday after noon, when be was lodged in jail It Is atated that the attempt at assault was not successful, and that the young woman suffered no injuries other than fright. Y*>ung Wood Is apparently 21 years old. Will Not lie Held. That s ri?htoous public sentiment can make Itself felt against evils when it Is sufficiently awakened is seen In the decision of Mayor Husse of Chicago, In response to pubic demand, to prohibit the first ward ball of that city. That function In all past has been notorious for lt<* flaunting and promotion of vice. For years its promote impudently and successfully defined law and or der and public opinion. That at last they hare had to bow before the sto-m of righteous indignation ought to encourage right minted people to persevere In their efforts to pro mote decency. Prime Minister Alain. An official dispatch received by the State department Wednesday morning from Bucharest stated that the prime minister of Roumanla had I ' "1 seriously wounded by aa aaarafctet. i ...... ... WAS HUNTED DOWN ONK NKGKO SHOT AND Bl'HNKD IK HIS OWN llOI'SB. Harder of Young White Man L?a<h to Death of Hluyer'n Brother and Wounding of Manther of lV>A*e. Magnolia. Ala.. Wt quiet Ttieada> night, following a <'.ny of intenno excitement with much bitter feeling manifested between the whites to. blacks of thut community. Kit'vis'. I Blade, one of four white men shot | by Clinton Montgomery, a deeperaiu negro, 1h fatally Injured, and bis death, expected at any minute, may servo to further fan the flames ol race hatred. Clinton Montgomery's charred body lies in the ruins of a small negro house, near the town, tn* work of a posse of citizens, llrlster and Shelly Montgomery, brothers of the burned negro, barely escaped lynching early Monday morning, when the sheriff of Marengo county captured theui and eluded the iun\ hunters, taking theiu to the county jail at Llndon. Search is being continued for Will Montgomery, another of . the four brothers, charged with the brutal murder late Saturday night of Algernon Lewis, a young white man which crime precipitated the trouble XI on day. Fractionally every negrr resident of Magnolia left there Mon day afternoon. The whites are well armed. Monday afternoon Clint Montgomery ami several other negroes were found bur floated in a house, which was soon surrounded by a deter m i nn/1 -- - m * ' 1 ......v., im.uj <ji wnues. Fearing for their liven, Montgomery's companions deserted hlui and surrendered to tho posse. Montgomery fastened the door, after defying the men to attempt to get him. One of his negro companions wa? then forced to set fire to the house, and when the building was enveloped In smoke, Montgomery threw open a window and opened Are upon the posse with a magazine shotgun Ernest Sladc fell mortally wounded, his face and body filled with shot. N. (?. Carlton, Tom Shields and Wni Llndsey were also wounded, though not seriously. A fusillade of shots struck Montgomery ns ho was attempting to leave the house, his body being riddled and then allowed to be consumed In the burning building. A report Is to the efleet that DrJster and Shelly Montgomery were placed in th" Linden Jail. Albert Watkinn, another negro suspected of harboring the Montgomery brothers, is under arrest. ... Sunday Ranitary Plan. Newspaper clippings received b> I)r. L. W. Dunn of Ashevllle. N. C.. show the thought of the people lu both the Carolinas and adjoining States to be strongly In favor of the "Sanitary Sunday plan. This day of preaching and teaching the right care of the human body was suggested by the Norrth Carolina Association for tho Prevention of Tuberculosis, of which Dr. Dunn Is president. "The press and the pul pit, supplemented by the teacher in the Sunday school ami the week-day school, must do a large part of th" missionary and educational work which i? necessary to rid thia city of tuberculosis or consurnntlon. During the last few weeks many ol the loading newspapers in the South ern fltatcfl," according to Dr. Dunn, "have been cordial in their support of the plan for Sanitary Sunday and have been intelligently appreciu tlve of Its real significance. Th?newspapers in their editorials hav shown that the campaign against tuberculosis must largely be foster ed by those agencies which Influence the judgment and arouse the conscience of the average people. Hence this first step to enlist the active co-operation of the pulpit and the preachor. Home Kulc in Sight. Ireland evidently stands to win In the present political crisis in Great Britain. The straightforward, clear cut promise of the premier that the liberal government If sustained In the coming elections, will present a bill for comolete hf.mr> bring* the goal plainly Into pight When Gladstone Introduced his bomr rule bills in 1 886 and 1894 ho wav clearly in advance of public sentiment in England But since then not only the liberal party but also the whole country hae boen educated up to the point of granting bono rule. This principle of devolution once successfully introduced will probably be extended until England an 1 Scotland, and perhaps, Wales will each have its local parliament This shows the rapid spread of the true Democratic spirit in England It will not be many decades before that country will overthrow the monarchy and elect its own rulers The recent foolish action of the House of Lords in rejecting the budget as proposed by the House of Commons only hastens the downfall of ths monarchy an well as Itself. Make yourself at home, but be csrefnl not to maks others wish that yon wsr*. gO ? ? ? ???C? I The Queer Little Girl I The Qnt?r Little Girl made herself a wreath of apple blossoms and picked a willow wand and sat on the bank by the little stream and cried, "Now I aru Queen of the May." Overhead the birds sang and Ike Mule fishes swans like brown shadows in the depths of the poo), hut none nt ....I.i " ?. wioiu yuiu ?u> aiicnuon 10 III? Queer Little Girl, and at last lb? Queer Little (Jlrl stood up and said. "I want somebody to play wltk. I want Homebody to play with." But only the sighing of the winds ?r? wered her. Then the Queer Little CJlrl trotted down (he path through the woods, and stopped at the door of a lilt'? end said to her motWr, "Mother. I'm the Queen of the May." And her mother looked at the wreath ui otoKHoniH and at the willow wand and ?he made a deep bow and taM: 'Will your majesty taste of my uppk? tarts which 1 iu.ve Just baked?" And the Queer Little (Jlrl clapped her hands and said, "Oh, mother, may I really have one?" And t??r mother gave her two on n little b (date with a glass of milk in a ni*? cup. And the Queer Little (Jlrl drank &U of the milk hut a little bit la the hottoni of the cup, and that she gars t? her blae.k cat. And the black cat rlr' nit the milk, and then lie sat up and curled his tall about his legs and sang to the Queer Girl, and the mine he sang sounded something like Ibis: "Purr-ur-up, purr-ur-up." And presently along the road cass? a great red ear, and In the ear was a man with round spectacles over hi? eyes that made him look Mke a fro?. And the Frog Man stopped the e?jr right In front of (he lilac bush and said, "Con I buy a hunch of lilacs?" And the Queer Little Girl said, "No. Hut 1 can give you some." And tb? Frog Man said, "1 want to take thai* to n<y little boy. He has a bad mM and can't come out. and he loves lilacs." "Oh," said the Queer Little Oiri, "does he love apple tarts, too?" The Frog Mun looked surpiiwedL "Why 1 guess he does," h? said. "What makes you ask?" "My mother has Just baked s?m? \?V?lr " ....1.1 ^ ? >? VIJ vnvo, "Hill IjllUV Girl. An<] she ran up to the cottage and brought back two tarts on a Mu* plate, covered with a white napkin "If jou are very careful," Bhe to'.d the Pros Man, "you can take them to your little boy withont 'sqnaetxiiig them." The Frop Man smiled and took off his goggles and showed hie nice Mm eye*. "You moat he very havpy here," be said, "with your Oowere iumI the trees and your black pusny eat" The Queer Little Girl nodded. "1 would be happier," nhe told him, *11 I had Rome one to play with." The Frog Man smiled down at bcr. "I>? yon really want n playuiutoF* he asked. "Yen." sold the Queer Little Girl, "I want somebody to play May Quonn with nve, and I think a boy would he nicest, herau.se then he could he Umi King of the May and wear a crow* like mine." And the Frog Man said, "Well, it iny little hoy's cough is hotter, I'll bring him here tomorrow morning, and he can be the King of the Mny." And ell 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. Tint on the third day, they huw it flashing In the ainatlgfet. and they ran out to meet It, and titers beside the Frog Man was a little boy tn a white linen suit, and he had a big box In his arms. And the Frog Man lifted hi in oirt od the ear and said to the Queer Little Girl. "Thin is the King of the May." And the Queer Little Girl clapped hew hands am) laughed, and the blaek eat rubbed against the little boy'a leg*, and the little boy said, "My father (old me about the blossom wreath and the willow war.d. and 1 want to rm the little fishes in the running brook-" But the Frog vian said: "l>on*t yon want to open your box first?" And the little boy said, "Oh, yc?!" And ?tfht?n tic hit a nniMKid tViii linv (KnM was a wonderful net of ptnh dishes with go'd bunds. and the Frog Man <ald. "You can serve the banquet on them for the King and Queen mi May." And the Queer Little Gtrl danced for Joy, and then she said, "We'll have little round white rolls and milk and strawberries out of the garden* Come and help uie pick them." And the little boy said, with bta fnre shining, "This Is the nicest plate in the world, father, 1 am going to help her pick strawberries.And the Frog Man said. "Would yos like to come every day?" And tk# little boy said, "Oh, yes!" So the Frog Man went ?p to lbs cottage and talked to the mother of the Queer Little (11 rl. Then be wuttt down by the little running brook and found the King and Queen of with pink bloesorn wreaths and wlllo# wnnds, sitting on the throne of an o*di gray tree truuk, and In fiont of tbvsi hi a hunmiJif n*t orfth tW plr.k djrh^k. od which were white rolls end berries and more rosy a*pie bloSSO^US. And the Frog Man eald: "You am to come every day and play with the little girl." And the Queer Little Girl, wboee eyes shone like star*, t hi sped the black pussy cat In ber arms and whie? pored. "Oh, pussy cat. pussy sat. now we shall have somebody te play with STeryday!"?Brooklyn ttagle.