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mmmm:: s NEIGHBORS f | By MARIA M. CALLAHAN. y 7 The sky was a leaden pray and the rain came down with the quiet per isteney of a hoplessly wet day. Warwick Chambers had its gay red and white awnings tightly furled, presenttog orderly rows of windows for the fceavens to wash. Against one of these windows a childish face was pressed, .gazing disapprovingly out on the sod den landscape. About a month before. May Dutton had been offered a position in one of the city's commercial schools. As the mortgage on the old homestead was to be foreclosed, the little teacher gladly accepted and, with her small sister, had faced the ordeal .of city life. Today for the first time the little girl was left alone, for a feverish ?old had kept her from school. Mazie had promised to come horn? as soon as -Class was dismissed, but the hours dragged dreadfully, and after a lonecome luncheon, Gladys was seized with the siplrt of wanderlust An ornamental iron balcony was utslde the windows and Gladys was delighted when a fat robin alighted on the rail and cocked a wary eye at her. She cautiously opened the window for clearer view, thrusting out her head to watch him flirt his wings at her from the farthest edge. Then her eyee fall on the next window, also looking eat on the balcony. The next suite waa occupied by a mysterious creature that the Janitor called a "bookworm," and Gladys bad die liveliest curiosity concerning him. There were two long hours yet to wait for Mazle; the next window was temptingly near and the balcony bad ? floor of slender Iron bars. In a twinkle she was out one window and fazing In at the next at the cocoon, as it were, of the worm. i The walls were lined with rows and rows of books, and near the center, In front of the fireplace, an tromense easy chair held out its amis Invitingly. Among all those books there must be some fairy stories. If the window was only unfastened she wouldn't hurt any thing by just looking. The rain-1 drops began to drip off her curls, Into her eyes and down her neck. The window was nntocked and Gladys stepped Into the room. Shelf after shelf of celebrated titles were passed over, but finally, In a low! comer, she discovered a row of shabby , volumes. "Swiss Family Robinson," [ "Gulliver's Travels," "Robinson Crusoe," and another book, not quite so worn, "Treasure? From Fairyland." Holding It tightly, she tiptoed over to the armchair for Just a peep. It seemed the worm liked chairs that were soft and snuggly, and the perch an its edge and a peep in the book resulted In an ecstatic wriggling and nestling down Into the tobacco-scented cushions, while the tall clock in the corner ticked off the minutes. A rainy day in the city always , strained John Grayson's patience. It seemed to draw out all the latent cossedoe88 In his pupils as well as to befog their wits. An hour later M&zie came along with much the same thoughts In her Blind, when the wind took her umbrella. blew her up the steps and In through the door, which It obligingly dammed after her. She walked softly from the elevator to her door to surprise Gladys and found herself confronted by a card which read: "Call Kext Door." The sinking of her heart Stopped before she knocked, for she beard Gladys laugh. Then the door opened and above John Grayson's bass rose an excited treble. "Oh. Mazle, I was so lonesome and 1 found the loveliest book and the worm l? aw-flv nice!" "We haven't an open fire and I really am cold," she pleaded. Mazie knelt down by her instantly, fondling her bands and touching her cheek anxiously. "Suppose we have tea here and toast the kiddle by the fire till bed' time and then HI carry her home," suggested John. "She surely cant Ottch cold then," be added artfully. Some way a quiet pipe did not seem o alluring as it had earlier In the afternoon. So the table was rolled up by the fire and John produced crock* dry and various utensils from soms most unexpected places. Mazle cams back after a short absence In her preh ty house gown, bringing wtth her the plummy cake she bad brought home for tea. It was a hilarious evening and John carried home a very happy little girl. Whep be came back the room earned very empty. Reaching for bis pipe be sat before the fire a long time, picturing Mazle opposite him again In her soft bine gown. It was, of coarse, necessary to Inquire after the invalid's health next day. From that it was easy to slip Into intimate neighborly relations, especlally as Gladys appropriated hlro as her own particular property. Then John's evenings at home began to be given more to reverie than to study and he developed also a carious In-, ability to pass a florist shop. One late afternoon he stopped at Marie's door with a tall sheaf of roses and found her alone, playing softly In the twilight Such propitious circumstances were immediately Improved by John and the "blessed little word"i was his answer. When Gladys cams romping In latar John's roses were Woor-lr?g sedately on the piano, but tweeter roses bloomed la Maxie't dutt&A. i Little Maids in tl Symb Giniing College, at Nanking, Is Girls' 8 tion of 111,000,000?Interchureh \ The way to all things at Giniing lies through the moon door. And through' thA mmn Hoor on the vav to wisdom I pass and repass, every day, the 70 Chinese maidens of the "gung-gwan." The moon door at Ginling is round as the full moon, whence It has its name. And the Chinese maiden, as she steps over Its high sill, may spread wide her arms and still not touch Its rim with the tips of her fingers. Sometimes across the court yard is another moon door, and beyond it, like a smaller concentric circle, still another, leading on through that Chinese puzzle of a house, the "gung-gwan" or official residence at Nanking. China.i which is now the home of Ginling College for Chinese girls?one of the' three women's colleges in all China. The moon door is but a single feature of the old place. Once inside the high stone walls that enclose it one is lost in a maze of courts and galleries and covered passages and isolated rooms. The whole is China, old China and new. The moon doors and the :irchitecture as a whole lend the dignity and the greatness of old China. But the laboratories and dormitories, libraries an! studies made from the old rooms r' date and ceremony ur? mod-| i as the force of America is! behind ?' all, repi-e^ented by the fire! Anient, a missionary organizations' HELD IN MOCKERY; ??___ "Kangaroo Courts" Instituted by Australian Convicts. ?????? ' T Wwniw at Botany Bay Said to Have Invented Idea to Relieve the Ma- j no tony of Their Ex latencySpread to United States. ? Kangaroo court la an expreaalon which, however strange It may be to the layman, la familiar to moat United States marshals, post office inspectors and the police forces of large dties, remarks a writer In the Detroit News, What it really stands for is explained by a poet office inspector who has had much experience with offenderi and criminals. It appears that In a number of the i larger prisons In this country 'the prisoners, from time to time, are accustomed to hold what they call kangaroo court, and that every notorious criminal in the United States Is probably not only familiar with the term, but has no doubt presided often enough as judge or prosecuting attorney in this relation, or perhaps has been tried for some of the numerous mock charges that are preferred against those who have the misfortune to be haled before such a tribunal. 8uch a court is held only In the great prisons of the country, being entirely unknown In the country jails. The institution of kangaroo court seems to date back some 40 years In the United States. In the days when Australia was a penal colony the convicts at Botany Bay, by way of atnuslng themselves and relieving the monotony of prison life, used to organize a sort of mock court at which the shrewdest and often the worst criminals of the lot presided as judge, while others acted as jurymen, prosecuting attorneys, bailiffs. criers and the like. AC sucn ina;s tne prisoners were wont to take on recent arrivals from England on all manner of mock charges, such as snoring too loudly, washing their faces with soap, and so on. If it was found that among the batch of new-comers, convicts Just from the old country, there were several who possessed money, court was | immediately convened and the ones suspected of having funds were haled j up on the charge of having red hair or j wearing box-toed shoes. The trial was held with mrck gravi-! ty and decorum, and In the end the j prisoner would be found guilty and , fined whatever amount ^ie was known | to have on his person for the offense , charged. The money &us obtained te "Moon Door'' pe of New China 1 chool In Five Provinces With Popula* Yorld Movement to Aid Institution. . and the American Smith Collegi which maintain Ginling, la modern. One pnshea ajar the halves of s moon door, latticed over .paper ix plum blossom and honeycomb design and. enters a chemical laboratory sel up in a room with 20 windows, each framed in dragon tracery. And from the flagstones of the laboratory floor often is scraped fungi and mould fot use under the microscope. These are typical contrasts of Oin ling College, revealed through thf survey of the Chinese field now beini' made by the Interchurch Wort ( Movement, which seeks to promote tha closer co-operation of Protestam Churches of America in attaining theii world aims. Qinling College, the survey shows is at the heart of five Chinese prow inces, with a total population of 110/ 000,000?and is the only woman's col lege in that great area. Ginllng owns 37 acres of land on the hills beside the Yangtze river. Id the Interchurch World Movement survey of China, there is a budget item of $500,000. It is there to show the churches of America how they can place upon that land on the hill the librcy, administration building, reel tat ion buildings, chapel?all that ar? njeded (or a modern college would be divided among the old, longterm convict*, who would buy tobacco and other luxuries with It, while the victim of this form of extortion would have no recourse except to await- the time when he himself got a chance to preside as judge or sit on the Jury at the trial of some new arrival. It was called kangaroo court because in those days the Botany Bay convicts spoke of themselves as kangaroos, an animal very abundant, as everybody knows, in Australia. The Institution, as well as the term, traveled from Australia to England, whither it was brought by returning Botany Bay convicts, whose terms had expired. It had a short life in England, however, where It was speedily discovered by the jailers and turnkeys and broken op; but It was not long afterward that it foond Its way Into the prisons of the United States, where it has remained ever since. Girl Advertises for "Dates.* Ac advertisement which, the advertising department of Columb'a university's daily newspaper, Spectator. Rays is the legtironte appeal of a young woman, appeared recently in the publication as follows: "Are you bound by convention? A Columbia girl from out of town, cultured, well bred and fairly good looking, wishes to make the acquaintance of several men In order to be introduced at Columbia functions. She Is entirely unconventional and Is willing to meet the men half way by paying all expenses. Strictly confidential. Address B 36, Spectator." The students who publish Spectator, the New York World says, profess lg norance of the identity of the young woman or whether the number 36 had any reference to the age or figure of the advertiser. Hundreds of masculine students are awaiting replies from her, the advertisement having been well answered. Tree-Spraying Apparatus. One of the developments of the fight against tree pests is a mobile power sprayer that Is touring the middle west, working in certain localities only so long as its services are demanded. then moving to another field. A solution containing arsenate of lead 1 ? "or In ornrm urOfi fh. IB useu iu me b|/iu,ici >u .. ? ? .. er, and one made with lime and sul? phur In cold weather.?Popular Science Monthly. Nailed at Last "Aren't you a bit of a profiteer on these epgsr "No," protested Farmer CorntosseL "It's the hen. She insists on the most expensive food In unlimited quantt* ties." ; ' 1 ITS UNWISE I to put off to-day** doty ntfl tomorrow. 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