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Wl TIWEL DIINWINNSBORO. S.C.. MARCH 8. 19004 SALSE 84 WHAT H Of all the mcn the world has seen Since Time his rounds began, There's one I pity every day Earth's first and foremost man; Just think of all he missed - By failing to enjoy The dear delights of youthtime, For-he never was a boy. *;He never stubbed his naked toe Against a root or 6tone. He never with a pin-hook fished For minnows all alone. He never sought the bumblebee Among the daisies coy, -Sor felt its business end. Because-he never was a boy. H2 never hookey played nor tied - brigbt and shining pail Down in the alley all alone To a trusting pood!es tail. And when he home from swimmin' came His pleasure to destroy "o slipper interfered, Because- he never was a boy. THE, DREAI B An Adrentui-e -After- fee The shooting party had gone away and left eight-year-old Freldie behind qhisgreat disgust. It was just about sunrise, the coolest, nicest time o' day in India, and his mother was not yet up, and the servants were busy else where, so there was nobody to pre vent him from wandering to the boundary of the tea plantation. There he observed of a sudden a quite unex Pecfed and amazing sight. Two brown men, one quite *old and the other quite young, wire in the shadow of the trees. They were stripped to the waist, and the old man wore a cummerbund and sandals, while the young, wiry man's legs and feet were bare. The old man was evident ly instructing the younger and super vising a lesson far more interesting to Freddie than the wor.ying intricacies of the rea-ling book and multiplication table. Flish, flash! Flickerty, flick! Up in the air, glancing in the morning's slanting sunbeams, quivered a prodi gious number of knives. They must sometimes have touched the juggler's hands, but so deftly did the man fin ger them that the knives darted about his head and body lik'e a swarm of great dragon flies, grazing his ears, soaring above his turban, swooping to 'his knees, bat never by any accident touching the ground until,- with a swift clatter and a clasb, they all came together in the .juggler's 'rasp, and hre laid-thein down. 1Now4e'little boy4e-' ~ soo' ery wide open inteed, and hen the ,,is uncon scidus lege had borne him, ~step by step, right up to the jugglers, where his .brown hair and pale face and pretty suit of snow-white duck con trasted strangely with their dusky skins and bright black eyes and cloths of glowing colors. He was immensely interested and rather awed, but by no means afraid, for he had . )een born in India and was accusto-aed to cont mune in a lordly manner with all sorts of natives. Even traveling jugglers were not unknown to him. So when the swarthy men salaamed humbly to the little sahib, the boy acknowledged I- their salute and sad with the simple direatness of one used to being * oleyed: * "Do it again." *The older man turned io the boy at once with an air of having expected him, and smiled and salaamed very lo .v in quite a gratified way. They obeyed him at once, and the young native began to perform even more amusing tricks. It was almost terri fying, but the curious and rather un nerving thing was that the oll juggler never seemed to take his eyes off the -boy. The old man gave him a mat to sit on, and smiled into his face with great piercing eyes, and told himi to be good and he would see what he would se . The old man then took a * mango stone from a basket, and care fully planted it. Then he covered the * spot for an instant with the basket, and there was the young plant already sprouting from the earth. Freddie .gasped, and the plant grew and grew right before his eyes. It grew and it grew and it grew,until in a very short time it was a tree. Then it spread a nd it spread, and had many branches and leaves, and at last little mangoes began to appear, and they gre w and ripened in a marvellous way, until the fakir plucked a big juicy one and gave it to the boy, who ate it and found il delicious. Then the juggler waved his hands and-the tree was gone. "Goodness me!" cried Freddie, "I don't see how that was done." The oldljuggler smiled again ani took a coil of rope f. om the wend erfia basket. It was a very ordinary rope: just, in fact, a wash line. But th fakir threw one end of the coil far up: and the' marvelling boy saw that th rop-e spuu slowly out, up and up tow I:ard the sky, quite straight as if some one were hauling at the upper end It went up and up until the end van - ished altogether. "Gracious goody!" cried Freddie "I don't see how that was done!" The oil man clapped his hands and the young man leaped at the ropa at once and seized it and began t< climb up, hand over hand, at a tre mendous rate. and he went up and u] and up until he also wvas out of sight "'I ne' e-,never did!" cried Freddie 'ho was now limp with amazement 'Where did he go to?" "Wherever he wished to go," th~ juggler said. "Does the sahib wish t go anywhere?" "Yes,' cried Freddie with a sudde haopy thought "Where my pap. and uncle are hunting." In a moment the juggler placed th rope in his hands. "Climb." said he, and without tak ti me to think Freddie climbed. cE MISSED. He might remember splendid time: In Eden's bowers -yet He never acted Romeo To a six-year Juliet. He never sent a valentine Intended to annoy His good but maide unt. Because-he never as a boy. He never cut a kite string, no, Nor hid an Easter egg; He never spoiled his pantaloons A-playin' mumbley-peg: He never from the attic stole A 'coon hunt to enjoy Nor found the "old man" waiting. For-he never was a boy. I pity him, why should I not? I even drop a tear. He never knew how much he missed: He never will, I fear. And always when those dear old days My memories employ, I pity him, Earth's only man, Who-never was a boy. -Pittsburg Dispatch. IDE OF A BOY. ting Tu-o Indinm JuyyJlers. Just how and when it happened that h. let go of the rope he could not tell, but without any trouble to him self he suddenly found that the rope had disappeared, and he was standing in a great compound beside a river. By the river banks were great stacks of lumber, and a small army of ele phants, each in charge of a mahout who, perched on the brute's neckwas picking up huge logs and carrying them, according to their length and thickness, to other stacks, where the elephants piled them with almost hu man intelligence and exactness. Fred die remembered this government dock yard, for he had been taken to watch the elephants once before by his father. He was greatly interested and wan dered about freely. He chatted to the mahouts and others,but it seemed odd they were all very, very busy, for they did not answer, indeed, they did not seem to see the little boy at all. Freddie did not mind that, there was so much to watch. At last he came to a corner of the yard where a big elephant was stand ing all by himself, swaying from side to side, chained by one leg. Freddie 'recognized him by his size as ofie that he had ridden on in care of the ma hout when he was here before. Natu rally, the boy wished to enjoy a ride again. There was no attendant near to help him up, but someh6w he found that the swarth, turb- i oId- jug g er was tOO 'ing into his eyes again, and the ne:t instant he was tri umphantly seated atop of U ele- 1 phant. He was tremulously pleased at i first, but all of a moment the beast' raised his trunk and trumpetel with a savage roar. At the same time he gave his leg a mighty jerk, and the iron chain burst, and the elephant was 1 free. He roared again and tossed his trunk high, and then chargea straight through the compound. The black men and the white men scattered in all directions, yelling in fear. "Run! Run! Look out! Look out! The Rajah's loose! He's 'mad! Run I for your life! They all ran so quickly that a clear ptwaleft for the mad elephant, who dshedstraight through the yard, shattered the great gates as if they were orange boxes and, trumpeting furiously, galloped wildly into the far spreading open country. Easily and incomprehensively as Freddie had got up he found he could not now get down, and he was dreadfully afraid, but he seemed fastened to the huge beast's neck just behind the great ears. He would have liked to jump off, but he could not; he just stuck and stuck and stuck. He had had no idea be fore that elephants could ran so fast. The Rajab ran like a t' ehorse. The trees and houses fl past. They came to a native ~ge, and the in habitants-fathe-s and mothers grab bing babies and howling with fear dashed and darted and climbed and crawled to all imaginable hiding places. Crish! Crash! through the branches of trees; splish! splash! through a muddy river; swish! swash! through meadows of high,thiek grass,in which Itame buffalos were entirely hidden Ifrom sight! Through wood and river and grass Freddie held on in a most marvellous manner. At last they came to a spot somewhat familiar to the lit tle boy, a strip of jungle with a belt of open, rolling grassland in front. Through an opening in the jungle Freddie saw the dark green brushes Iof a plantatiou, and beyond that the roof and upper veranda of a high bungalow. Freddie recognized his own home. He had no time to look twice, however,for suddenly right be foe the elephant, directly in his path, Ithere stepped out from the jungle two big men with guns, and Freddie saw that they were his father and uncle. For' the first time the boy found breath to yell. "Papa! 'Uncle Fred! Let me down!" he screamed. "The elephant Ihas run away! He's mad! Stop him! Take me down!" It was impossible to believe it, it was absurd to credit it. Those two big men, at sight of the ma.l elephant and the little boy charging upon them, turned and fled! True, they had only light, small calibre rifles, but-was that an excuse for deserting an adored son and nephew in his extremity? They did not get away, however! Freddie's father tripped and fell right in the road of the Baah! Uncle Fred stopped, white as death, but steady, astride of the stunned figure of his brother. Seventy yards away the ele han tuted and bore down tri umphantly. Uncle Fred tcok careful aim. There was but one little spot in -the great beast's forehead to hit suc cessful nd stop the Tas. To miss is meant death for both me. The hunter gazed steadily through his sights at that spot, and paid nut the slightest attention to Master Freddie, who, in an agony of apprehension, screeched at the top of his voice: "Don't miss, uncle, or you'll hit me!" Seventy yards, fifty yards, thirty yards! Uncle Fred fired. Flame and smoke and roar and crashand Freddie found himself sitting on the grass alone, and the wonderful Indian jug glers had both disappeared. He picked himself up at once and ran as fast as he could back to the, bungalow. It was past breakfast time, and everybody was on the veranda. Freddie's mother was tying up hev husband's arm in a sling. Uncle Fred was standing up and talking ex eitedlv. Freddie heard him as he ran up. "The closest shave'" Uncle Fred cried. "By Jove, Dick, though I say it myself, it was a great shot, too! Right on the vital spot, and he wert to his knees with a crash! Halloa!" "Freddie!" cried his mother. "Where have you been? Without a hat! oh! dear, oh! dear? You'll have sunstroke!" But Freddie leaped to his father's breast, sobbing. "I'm so glad," he sobbed. I lidn't know whether you killed the elephant or the elehant killed you, and I was afraid : !le missed and killed me, but I'm 1ot killed, am I, papa?" All .three grown-ups raised their hands, and their faces were pictures of bewilderment. "How do you know about the ele phant? Where were you?" his father gasped. "Didn't you see me?" Freddie asked reproachfully. "I was on the top of the elephant, where the mahout rides, you know. The old juggler let me limb the rope, and I went to the .ckyard,and goton theRajah's back, and he went mad and ran away, and I thought you were killed and-" "Freddie!" cried his mother, "you have got sunstroke." She picked the little boy up in her arms and carried him into a cool room, where he was put to bed with ice on his head, while the doctor was sent for, in spite of his protests, but on the veranda his father and uncle stared at ach other. "Jugglers! Climbing up the rope?" cried his father. "The child musti have met a troupe of these travelngl wonjurors!" "But-but," said - Uncle Fred: reebly,' "of course all Anglo-Indians;. knetheatzag aTesO 04 M !au perf&m, which no man-no white itany rate -has ever explained, >t-but-oh, bless my soul-there vas an elephant, and you did fall, and here was no boy on the elephant's )ack, and therefore Freddie couldn't )e there, but-but-oh,rAeconfound it Li, how did he know what happened, >efore anybody but our two selves and rour wife knew any elephant had been hot at all?" Freddie's father jumped up angrily n spite of his sore arm. "I've seen that rope trick done often md the man climb into the clouds. verybody has seen i' and no one ver explained it, save by hypnotism >f the audience. That's it! But 'the dea of practising- their arts upon a itte boy! It's too bad! I'll send >t, and if they are caught, they will ave to hypnotize themselves out of ail !" "Of course," said the uncle, still vith weak bewilderment, "but-but 'as Freddie on the elephant or was e not? Don't you know? Oh, bless n soul?" So riders were sent out in all direc ions to catch the wonderful jugglers, mt it was no use-these had juggled hemselves far away. But Freddie's nother was very indignant at his father mnd Uncle Fred for such suggestions as hypnotism and jugglery. "You two big sillies!" she said. "The boy went to sleep in the sun and reamed, and the rest is all coinci Sence. So, there!", Still, however, men camne from the lockard to trace the dead elephant, and they told of his escape just as Freddie did. So, there!-Sun. Hie Was MJistaken. The young man was telling the young lady that he believed there must be some sort of affnity between them. And he went on to say that the other day when he was walking up the street he felt that she was com ing up on that next car, nay, he knew that she was in that car. Sure enough, when the car rolled by there she sat, and not only that, but she turned and saw him walking. A few days after wards the young man was forced to make a confession to the young lady. He had told her about "feeling" that she was coming, and as the rumbling and roaring of the car grew nearer he was moie and more curious to see if his premonition was correct. "Wel,"said he, "that car came right along and I was as sure as could be that the next instant ,I would turn arond and see you."~ "And then?" she asked. "And then," he went on "that rum bling and roaring and bumping came by and-no you weren't there. It was a freight car full of cab)bages. - Detroit Free Pr. es. No' so Looney. Lunatics often assume a superiority of intellect to others which is quite amusing. A gentleman while walking along a road not far from the sine of which ran a railway, encountered a number of insane people out for exercise. With a nod toward the railway lines, he said to one of the lunatics: "Where does this railway go to?" The lunatic looked at him scornful ly for a moment and then replied: "It doesn't go anywhere. We keep it,. ere ton rn trains n.-.Agate FOR WOMAN'S !ENEFIT.1 Pure rlag Craze. A craze is the purse 'bag, which is very fashionable. These are very pretty small bags-some in reticule, others in oblong shapie-made of a colored leather to mateli the costume and mounted with gold-pr chased gilt clasp and chain. They'all have inside pockets for the watch, viniagrette, purse, handkerchief, et& Made of naby Lamb. A visiting jacket of black baby lamb has facings of ermine to the re vers and also the high storm collar, which is deeply scalloped. This is becoming to the face, and a little of the ermine is permitted to turn over for display in the generous scalloping of the collar. A close fitting back and loose front has this modish fur jacket, a suitably stylish affair for formal vis iting._ _ Earrings Conte in Again. There is no longer any doubt as to the return of earrings to favor. Their use is already almost universal. As one glances about the audiences at the opera, where fashion in its most extravagant and also its most exclusive form congregates, one.. sees every where the little jewel gleaming in the ears of women. At present the one permissible form for this ornanent is that known as the "scrbw," with a solitaire, sapphire or pearl of small size, fastened securely by means of the little back screw. lOccasionally earrings with two stones are seen, set one below the other, and fastened just below the lobe of the ear by means of the old fashioned wire catch; but these are few, and pendants are not countenanced as yet. -Harper's Bazar. Cashmere a Popular Material. That time-honored material, cash mere, is being pressed with all pre cision into pleated service. The new qualities are deliciously soft and fine, and are consequently most supple and easy to manipulate. A griy cashmere admired immensely at a recent tea was arranged with a skirt.set into the tiniest borpleats all rouni, that were caught down fiat,. but invisibly, as far as the knees, whence, after.being well pressed, theywere permitted to flow out perfectly free; a .&I ,lliiito cling ing Ye 'sniartlyr. pononised folds, shilea th ~ r - the a In A erpen ameled 0aof the bod dicular line. The cise'y the same ice was disposedinPte 3eats being fashion as the skiting fashion about lost in mos a decided pouch oc the figure line,; (epuc o hefurerin teaist ovr a ceinture curring at the >anne, a touch of of burnt orange ryritodcdi celor most effectivXsY reinroldedi e frm f ahigl1 shaped, folded a form of a hitral eak collar band. It w alya em and ably pretty pleated Snempity. yetwitalof uck5~died simplicity. yet withal of such- set1 - TheChi n Scarf. Of so many sorts is chiffon scarf that one si doesn'? know where to begin. Of its ubi-] quitousness there can be no question. You simply cannot get away from its mazy, becoming lengths. It snuggles round beauty's neck; it forms an ador able nest for her piquant chin; it makes a prim, little, knotted neck scarf, or it broadens into voluminous I folds until it is a full fledged wrap, with long floating ends, for her soft shoulders. The boa is in this same class. One of the daintiest of these boas,4 by the way, is an all black affair of mousseline, with narrowest black lace, in frosted, jet effect, round the edges. It is a huge ruche ronn? the neck, with the frills in serpettine effect down the long ends. In softest smoke color is a plain long scarf, in Liberty silk instea~d of chiffon. In this, or any becoming color, it makes a cosy throat wrap ping. Indeed, the becomingness of it cannot be sufficiently di1-ed upon. aPrim, though chic, exactly describes a itelove of a stock with a bow in front. It is all of cream white, with lots of tucks and rose quillings of white baby ribbon along the edge. With a low bodice one indeed ap preciates a dainty frilled affair of rosy chiffon. It is twice the depth neces sary to cover the shoulders, and all the frills are embroidered along the edges with black chenille, while deep black chenille fringe effectively fin ishes the long ends. College Girls Run a Laundry. Two Smith college graduates have started a laundry. What they learned about chemistry and hygiene in the curriculum of their college they are applying to the washing and ironing of clothes. No injurious chemicals are used and every effort is made to run the establishment on model prin ciples. The room in which the wash ing is doae is spacious and sunny, and there is a large plot of green grass in the rear where the clothes are hung to dry. The college girls have a little room partitioned off from the big one, where they can watch operations and give directions. One young woman is kept; busy marking the pieces sent in and a team collects ~and returns the work, which is charged for at the ordinary laundry prices. Two big washing machines are r un by steam powver obtained from a! neighboring house, and there are also several set tabs where washing is done in the old fashioned way. A special method which cleanses w ith out rubbing is used for delicate fab rics which would easily be damaged. Table linen is put through e special press to give to it a finish and to bring out the design, being ironea by hand afterward. Each employe hs a special work for which she is fitted peculiarly. In ironing'a shirt one woman irons the body, another the bosom, another does the sleeves and a fourth folds the garment. The irons are heated by gas and the workers wear light cotton dresses and white aprons. Already the young women are doing a good business, but if more persons should visit their attractive laundry their custom would be increased greatly. A Wom-an's Visit to Mrs. Kruger. "I think it is terribly unfair, this misrepresentation of the characters oi Pi esident Kruger and Mrs. Kruger," said a lady now visiting Boston, who has traveled extensiyely all over the world and who for thieayears was a resident of the Transtal - Mrs. Fletcher Webster Jewell. "Only a few days ago I read an article . ich described Mr. Kruger as an unedu cated old fellow and his wife an or dinary Dutch vrouw, who spent the most of her time wrestling with pots and hettles in her kitchen. It also went on to state that the furnishings of their home were of a very primitive character and gave the impression that the honsehold was not much above that of the ordinary Boer farmer. "During my three years' residence in the Transvaal I became acquainted with President and Mrs. Kruger and several members of their family, and I must say that a more delightful old couple than Oom Paul and his wife I have seldom had the pleasure of meet ing. There is no absurd ostentation about them. They are simplicity it self in their dignified courteousness, and whoever is the authority for the statement that they are deficient in refinement and that their house lacks appointments consonant with the dig ity of their position is either will fully misrepresenting or absolutely ignorant of the real condition of af airs. "I have called at their home and I ssure you chat, far from being fur iihed in any primitive manner,I con sider it a very well furnished house. [ met the old president and had a pleasant chat with him through an in terpreter, his grandson. "I also met Mrs. Kruger, and a ore pleasant old lady you would not want to see. We had a delightful :hat, through an interpreter who spoke German. I have also seen the Her a little story of Mr . ruger, and it illustrates the kind Leartednss of the woman: Plans were eing prepared to build a monument o the president, and when the drav gs were completed they were shown o Mrs. Kruger. She was very much leased with them and expressed her .dmiration to the architects. 'But here is one thing I would like to uggest to you,' she said. 'The de ign is beautiful and the whole plan leases me very much, but there is ne thing I would like, if you can ar ange it withon a sacridce to art d Sis, when you design the presi lent's hat you will leave a little hol ow in the top from which the birds an drink.' This is a small thing, :at it illustrates the woman's kind ess of heart."--Boston Herald. Fashion Notes. Genache satins, trimmed with chif on and lace, make charming evening ~ostumes.. Coral jewelry, with the difference ht it is set round with diamonds, is oming in again. Silk finished corduroy, velvet and loth are made up into very gorgeous kating costumes. A novelty in jewelry is a string of Russian turquoise beads set with a liamond between each two. Black and white chenille fringe in randyke point effects and tastefully uotted headings are the newest ideas trimmings. The daintiest pocketbooks of the eason are of ooze leather with stad ,lasp of pearls, turquoise, coral, sap-I hires and emeralds. White cloth cut in diamond shaped menings filled in with guipure lace rd made over pale blue silk forms one f the princess gowns. Collar bands are hgher than they ave ever been, but are made without :he ear like pieces at the sides and ack, which have been used for some :ie. A hair net'which fastens at the back >f-the head with a fancy pin the size > a small button is a novelty which is supposed to keep the short locks in place. Stocks are a very important fact-or in the success of a shirt waist Linen :ollars have 'been losing favor for some months, and it cannot be denied that they look wintry when contrasted with flannel. The latest Parisian fad is a bunch of real violets, or an orchid with maiden bair pinned on the muff Fur toques with a bunch of real flowers,- roses r violets, fastened in at one side are still another extravagance. A pretty bow for the hair is made o white lace insertion with a scalloped rregular edge, and a little more than n inch wide. It is wired in the ce n tre and arranged in two loops spread :g each way from a close knot and bent in a waved effset. Nothing can be much daintier than the boas of marabout feathers in paleI rav. They are round and as soft as down i self. and arc made with a series of feather tails tipped with white, whieh.giv hem a very fluffy nuni owvn tipped with w y, and they are ltv CHILDREN'S COLUMN, The Seven Sleepers. Curly-headed Baby Tom Sleeps in cozy blankets warm In his crib. Bob-o'-Lincoln-oh, so wise! Goes to sleep neath sunny skies, Mid the leaves. Mr. Bruin. night and day, Snoozes all his time away, In his cave! Squirrel-Red, with nuts-a store! In hollow tree-trunk loves to snore, In the wood. Mrs. Woodchuck 'neath some knoll, Drowses in her bed-a hole! Deep in earth. Floweret bulbs nestled together, -Doze all'tthrugh the wintry weather, -Neath the snow. In the chrysalis hard iy, Dreams the sometime butterfgy; In corner hid. N. Oh, what beds! So very queer! Yet to each one just as dear As yours to you! -Youth's Companion. A Clever Horse. At a farm one of the horses was constantly escaping from its stable at night and it was thought some boys had been playing pranks and let it out. The farmer decided to sleep in the hay loft to see, if he could, how it was managed. He found the horse broke the halter, went to the door, pulled the latch up and galloped into a field near with the cows and sheep, and so the mystery was explained. Value of Good Eyesight. It is wise to cultivate the eyes. Make them see. You think you see well, but if you begin to try to see you will be surprised at the wond er ful discoveries you will make. The writer knows a little girl who, when she goes into the woods, sees a great many things no one else sees until she calls their attention to them. Beautifal bits of moss, unknown tiny flowers, stones with mosses on them, spider webs, even leaves with strings defacing them, this small gil sees. You are busy every minute when in the woods with her, she 'sees so man new things. A boy named Philip went into the woods gunning. As.haiwalked along he saw the mark. fftyg on a dead r idcat aL he tree filled with wila eran home to his mother tnd told her what he had found. They got a cart and drove back to the ;ree. It coltained 400 pounds of oney. That boy must have been lad that he had learned to use his yes. Training Wild Animalo. The popular theory that animals an b'e taught tricks by firmness and indness is a grim error, according to L veteran circus man who has sent orth the dictum that no animal was rver trained to do anything unnatural ~xcept by punishment. If it knows mee it will obey. It takes the whip to break the colt . o harness or saddle, but the end ustifies the means, and the animal's ntelligence when once it has learned ts lesson does away with further use f the-whip. But if a horse is tanght ricks, such as one sees in a circus, he constant use of the whip is neces ary, and the little pat on the neck he trainer gives the animal in public s not bestowed in private. There is ever any let-up in their training. Trained dogs always appeal to wom en and children, for the little animals ppear to thoroughly enjoy their work.' But the bat-king and frisking is only he natur~al joy of the poor bensts at being let out of the cramped quarters where tney stay *when they are not in he ring. Moreover, they know the rainer does not whip them in public. There is scarcely a trick a trained dog des tirat he likes or that he will do t .order unless punished. Willis obb was the first dog trainer to make reputation, and wheni he was middle ged he abandoned his profession bf :ause he said he had not the heart to go on. making a living by whipping! dogs. Until a monkey is beaten he has no fear. He would as soon attack a lion s a gnat, and as long as he can look into your eyes he will not submit. He considers he is the master. Avert the head and he gives in. This is a recognized fact among animal trainers. The ring-tail monkeys taken about by Italians are very gentle and are never whipped. -Cleveland World. Heroism and a Btoy Hero. Sometimes it requires more bravery to do a little thing all alone than to do some great thing in company with others. Thus a soldier may be a hero on the field 'of battle, but lack the courage to stantd up alone on a plat form and make a speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his ebsay on "Heroism," says that genuine heroism is persistence. As an illus tration hie tells how his little son Waldo on his way to school had to pass a house where lived a French family. The child heard the family talking their native language which he could not understand, and that made him have a sort of superstitious fear of them. So Mr. Emerson nsed to walk to and from school with the little fellow. But one day he 'decided that the child was old enongh to overcome his fear and pass the house of the French family by himself. lie went to scho with the lad and told hi must return alone. After school was dis walked mnunlly to~ he~ had -nearly rea. bose, Then li9 ing against the fence, began to whimper. Miss Elizabeth. Hoar, a neighbor, saw him and went to his rescue. "Come, Waldo, I'm going your way and you can walk with me," said she. The child looked up tearfully into her eyes a moment and then said in, most dolefal voice: "I don't tin that was what my father meant for m to do." Then he trudged on by him. self. In-such ways boys' and girls may prove their heroism in-the little duties of life. -Chicago Record. Story of a Pet Flying Squirrel. -Several years ago I was presented a young flying-squirrel; and, as it was too young to remember its woodland home, it soon became a very -happy and dainty pet. . I had built for its use a large, airy cage, some eighteen inches high, nearly two feet long, and about fifteen inches wide, as nearly as I can remember. This cage halboards on ends, covered with a strong wire. netting, that was fine enough to pro tect the occupant from the attacks of cats or dogs or other outside enemies -gn-&ryet open enough to admit plenty of fresh 7. stly. At hrst he was fed on milk, an lhe always water to drink whenever he wanted it. After a few weeks he could eat the meats of nuts; and by and by he could get the meats out himself. This h accomplished by boring a hole through the nut with his tiny, sharp teeth,but I do not think anybody but a sqirrel could have taken the meat from anut that way. He would amuse himself for an hour or more at a time,runnmg over the wires and bars of his cage.. There was ao wheel in 'he cage,. as he - was a little creature at best; and we._ feared he might get injured withit. - He had a little blanket, suited tohis size, and, when he took a nap he. would roll himself up in it, so the was only a small white ball to be seen. Though every miniber of family at some time or other triedto watch the tiny squirrel roll himself his blanket, no one ever saw whole process, as he seemed when he was watched, and would at Lis work, with a merry k bright eyes, till -the Watcher' si"-_ tion was for a moment arreste on glancing back, only a softw%'. ball was visible. A dainty creature as seeming to fullyapprecm and comfortable hie everything h ne or es, it orefer hut in 0n of doorlH ived, he soon. learde ts my coming, and the wheel chair was 'th6 .signa-that ife-signs in the little white,1il & >ffen he would seem to eiert Eor my amusement a long'tim. After someftve or six years o oying this pet, there came mo when he did not come out to me; and, when at noon he was uiet, a gentle hand unrolled blanket, to find only a ; here were no signs of sf he position of the-frail h Ml -.1 s if asleep' ad ave nissed he f squirrel eary hon o the brief ain. I almost f aps up her milk ers.-By the. Own Work. Too Smart a Dog. It was one evening not ylong ao when everybody had been trying . :utdo everybody else in tellingiftl wonderful sagacity of animals hehmd known, or seen, cr heard of that Be. Dr. Herrick, U. S. A., retiredtoled. this story. On any less -authority L onfess I should have shad my doubt - s to the truth of it, but Dr. Herritik actually knew tl& man to whom 'he~~ thing happened. It was about atdogel ourse. The town, I believe, athog~. am not quite sure, was Atlanta. Dr& Herrick's friend was driving along Peachtree street when he e gih man who owned the dog, E't foot. i. Dr. Herrick's friend imi' liately invited him to jump in and taz.. a.ide.~ The dog's owner said he wouldK a with great pleasure if he onig' huad'his gloves with him. "Shall I drive around to your office - and get them?" asked Dr.. Herricjc.'s friend.. "0, no," said the other. "I'll uss snd my dlog for them." .3 So he called that wonderful dog, made signs to him, showT him his hands, and sent the intelligent~ animal ~ off to the office to fetch what was most frequently in contact with his ha his gloves, of course. The dog w gone only a few nmmutes. When he came back lxe had something 'in his moth, and he was wagging his tail merrily. He had bronght the belt from ~the stenographer waist. Washington Post. H in Park Squirrels. - Two men who looked like down town merchants were walking throagh the p rk :ts usual one morning. Many squir: els -an out and :aluted, also as usra!. 2,~it the walkers only laughed. At last a very fat squirrel hopp~ed off a bench and lan forward. - "That's ine,' s..id one of the mer chants. That's m~y be y; see howa he is." The big little creature ' his friend, too, apI.ard out into the rad -