Manchester Democrat. [volume], November 23, 1904, Image 6

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THANK8QIVINQ ON THE FARM.
FmIi llkt Thanksgiving round the farm!—
The kind o* crispy a!r
That makes yer glad ye're llvln,' an' cot
ttnch pertlc lar where
•o lOQf'f yet lungs Is workln' an* kin fill
Jrer to the brim
With that double compound eitrac' o' per
petnat youth an* Tim
The |upd thai gives yer eometbln* to be
.1 ... thankful 'bout,
Ir It a only 'Co* you re up an dreued an
able to be out.
Looks like ThankspMn' ropnd the place!—
JP1*- tnapl^s burnln* red
An* the apple! sorted out In heaps, a-rlpen
lh* [n tne shed
The m$s a-jgettlo' barer ex the leaves
tpnit flutVrln down,
An tsq pijnkliia growln* yellcr an* the pas
tpr gettlrr brown
The tyuouie nyln' low along ttao sheltered
Tlle
r?VPF"
»y|n'
J1'4?
An the orchard cli
... orchard dean's a whistle *cos the
clder-makln's done.
Smells like Thanksglvln* round the house!—
I rather guess you'd know
what day It wuz by snlffln' round, *coz
everywhere you go
Ton ktfch the sccnt o* stuffln* an* the
siQell 0' pies an' cakes,
An' ctturb'ry sass an' turkey' an* the pud*
Tun' 8ary makes
lest fer Thanksglvln' c*oz, she says, she
Aggers that It brings
A malt jer takln somehow, a more thank
ful view o' things.
Sonnds like Thanksglrln' round the farm!—
The blackbirds chatt'rln' s6f
The pa tridse whlrrln' In the woods, an'
evetrwhere you go
Too hear the flails a-flyln* an* yer hear the
drivers call
Clean from th4 pike (the air's so clear), an*
.then, tjie best of all,
Ter near the wagon rattlln', an' yer know
It's oft the way
From the station with the children—come
to spend Thanksglvln' day.
An* 'Us Thanksglvln', no mistake! 'Cos
money couldn't buy
The lp^ J^ee fc-bpamln from the mother's
Ncr the piMtf uv tke children, ner the hap
plnefcs I feel
When I fete 'em gathered round us fer one
... —..
AD' a
OUVMIl ..
plnefcs I feel
1 I bee 'em gal...,
more Thanksglvln' meall
Njlermatlon somehow ain't required
ttf let us know
That lt'i time that we wuz thankfnl an* ter
•It us r?elln' so!
—William Cary Duncan In Farm and
AND NOW THE PUMPKIN.
Mm •ad Yellow and, Under Proper
Treatment, Foil of Delights*
HANKSGIVING
is I
without the tur
key, so aiso is it
Jor
Incomplete with
out the toothsome,
if humble, pump*
kin. No Thanks*
giving feast is
properly ended
unless it has had
as its last course
the pumpkin pie
of our ffrandmoth
era. Not the
squash concern of
these later days,
which sometimes
is ab dry
chip and other
times as wet as a
bog, and nt all
times lacking in the true Thauksgiving
favor but the big, thick, yellow pump*
kin pie with the genuine ^ew England
tatty and old-fashioned filling capacity.
3aborate
the dinner ever so long and its courses
beyond description, there Is al
ways room at the end for a generous
slice of grandma's pumpkin pie.
The pumpkin, as you may surmise, be
longs to the gourd family. Just where
it originated cannot bo learned with any
certainty, because in the early days rec
ords of such things were not kept. Many
•apleties of it are cultivated suscess
fully In both temperate and tropical cli
mate), and In Southern Asia it is espe
cially cultivated. There Is no such thing
a wild pumpkin. The plant accommo
date! Itself tp differences in soil and cli
mate rerj. readily, and this-fact accounts
for th* difference in shape and flavor
which Is often noted.
JTh^ cultivation of gourdujugan before
the dawn of history, and both edible and
crnamsntal ^varieties were abundantly
railed by the races of antiquity. The
Vompkln, which of course belongs to the
former, has become bo modified by cul
ture that the original plant from which
It descended can no longer be traced. The
Innumerable kinds to bo seen In India
would seem to Indicate that that part of
Asia was its birthplace, but some appear
td have been under cultivation in Africa
from the very earliest ages. The Rom
am were familiar with certain varieties
of It, and it was used by them as an
article of diet. Thus threo great coun
tries of the Eastern hemisphere might
claim it as their own as far as wo would
have any right to Bay. Perhaps the
nmpkln is a native of the whole world,
It was found in tho Western hemi
sphere by the first white man who land
ed, and It must therefore have been In
digenous to American soil. The Indians
knew It and cultivated It for centuries.
That the pumpkin was at one time a
much more important crop than It is to
day Is certain. It was as easily Taised
then as sow, as a "stolen crop," the
seeds being planted in fields of corn or
potatoes, usually the former. Before the
Introduction of tilio squash the pumpkin
was need ar a table vegetable, and in
many of the countries of the Orient this
use continues to this day. A winter
pumilkin grown in Turkey Is snow white.
This variety is sold extensively on "the
streets of Oonstantlnople. In Hungary
attempts to turn pumpkins to account in
the manufacture of sugar, in the came
way that beets are used, have been
made, but they wero not attended with
any great degree of success. Sometimes,
In the United States, when sugar and
money are both scarce, the pumpkin is
boiled to a syrup, thus furnishing a sub
stitute for sugar, which, under the cir
cumstances, goes very well.
The American pumpkin is a big yellow
fellow, though attempts aro constantly
being made to substitute the smaller,
and often less available, kinds. Tho fact
remains that the pumpkin which grows
Id the field along with the corn Is the
best tor the Thanksgiving pie, after all
Is ssld and done. It has no frille, and no
high sounding name, but, In tho language
of the poet, it gets there just tho same,
A BARNYARD DRAMA. iiM
The Victim's Dream of a Horrible
Revenge.
Booster—So you will steal my corn,
will you? Oh, you needn't strut around
hers as though you were the only one
In this menagerie.
WT3
:w:
Turkey—Oh, I don't know. You're
not in it with mo just now. I'm the
most popular thing on the walk at pres
ent.
Rooster—Well, mndani, stretch your
rubber neck up over my head all you
want to to-day, but just you wait till
to-morr^Tv! When your skinny legs are
being dragged to the execution block,
I will look on at your gory expiration
and from the bottom of my lungB will
crow for victory!
Turkey (taking two struts coopward
and landing in tho center of the stage)
-—Aye, aye, 6lr! But listen. Death
hath its rewards, and to sacrifice myself
at tlio altar of revenge is moro glorious
than life. What if my beauteous wings
shall switch tho dust from out tho cracks
o£ tie kitchen stove? Wait till my nude
and -helpless form lies stretched upon
libo platter of tho feast! Then shall re
venge come i'j me, for never yet was'
one of our tribe sacrificed at the altar of
Thanksgiving that tho merciless gour
mands did not so o'erstuff themselves
that nothing in all the world was worth
the having for threo dayB in advance,
Revenge! My friends, revenge indeed
is sweetl—Dotrolt Free Press.
Pride Goeth Before a Fall.
Young Turkey—By tho way tho farm
er Is feeding me, he must think I'm a
pretty fine bird!
Old Gobbler—Yes, but don't get stuff
ed up too much or the first thing you
know you'll lose your head entirely.
Thanksgiving in 1780.
It Is commonly understood, and fre
quently asserted, that Abraham Lincoln
was tho first President to issue a Thanks
giving proclamation, and that he estab
lished a custom to which all his success
ors have adhered. Before that tihao the
observance of the day was confined
chiefly to the New England States, where
it had been ushered iu every autumn
from early colonial times by Governors'
proclamations. The common belief is
essentially true. It was not uutll 1SC3
that any President proclaimed the last
Thursdav in November as a day of na
tional thanksgiving. Mr. Lincoln had
nineteen months before designated
particular Sunday for that purpose.
Yet dt should not be forgotten that in
the early days of the republic there were
occasional presidential proclamations of
this sort. Tho very day of November
on which Thanksgiving falls this yeai
Thursday, the 2Gth—was set apart by
Georgo Washington, in the first year of
his administration, "to be devoted by the
people of these States to the service of
that great and glorious Being Who is
the beneficent author of all the good that
was, that is, or that will be." He pre
faced these expressions by saying that
both houses of Congress, through their
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LET US GIVE THANKS.
The world is full of the gqod, the bright and the beautiful, and there is
fault in the eye that cannot see it, aud wrong in the heart that does not
appreciate.
Let Xis give thanks: For life and love. For home and family. For
peace and plenty. For health aud hope. For all the Joys of life which no
man can measure. For all Us sorrows whose hidden blessings no mind but
the divine can estimate. For friends who cheer us for foes who put us oh
our mettle. For triumphs that give us confidence for defeats that quicken
our resolvos. For successes that give us noonday sunshine for failures that
bring us revivifying dews of night Pleasure, prosperity, the material bless
ings that abound—even ingrates can give thanks for these. Let us, for this
once In the long year, look into the heart of our sorrows, our failure®, our
disappointments, our illnesses, and see if there does not lie there, as within
the hard, bitter hull of the nut, some good kernel that is sweet and whole
some. And so give thanks.
The rich, the well, the happy—surely they need not be taught to give
thanks! For what we have got out of this world it is easy to be grateful
But for what we have been able to give unto it, of goods, of sympathy, of
sacrifice, of cheer, of uplift, of soul-stuff—for this we may give thanks that
"will blend infinitely sweet, into the eternal muBlc of the spheres. Po, each of
us, as different gems have different powers to reflect the light, let us give
thanks!—Dcs Moines News.
joint committee, had requested him to
make this recommendation.
It was nearly six years before Wash
ington issued another Thanksgiving proc
lamation then ho set apart a Thursday
in February, assigning as one of the
reasons, "for tho seasonable control
which has been given to a spirit of dis
order in the suppression of the late in
surrection," referring to the almost for
gotten Whisky Insurrection in western
Pennsylvania.
President Adams twice proclaimed
spring fast days, but he urged that the
duties of humiliation and prayer be ac
companied by praise and thanksgiving.
Madison, during his eight years in the
White House, set apart four such days,
but nono of them fell 111 November.
Thanksgiving is not the only holiday
introduced by a proclamation. The Gov
ernors of the States in which Arbor day
Is observed, usually take this moons of
calling public attention to its objects.
The old New England fast day was al
wavs announced by a proclamation,
which was read in the churches the Sun
dav preceding, as the Thanksgiviug proc
lamation still is.—Youth's Companion.
Murphy's Turkey Raffle.
Murphy hed a turkey raffle,
All th' push wuz tbcyr,
Dlnnls Doau contbrolled th sals
Shtandln' an a chair. ^•. .r
Tlcklts wuz a half plunk
Turkeys they wux fat,
Iverybouy wlnned a bird— v.V
'Ceptln' me and Pat.
Inter 'leven pools we wlnt -v J.
Thought It wuzn't rlcht,
An' Put 'e got '1a dander up •m:\*
An' shwore they'd le a flght. t-i
lie wuz ono agin th push,
Bo 01 bolted In,
Couldn't see an Orlshman
'Ith nary chance to wlu
Sich a sight ye nlver seed,
All oround th' floor v.v.
They wuz turkev feathers shpread
Mingled *lth tl»' gore.
Pat smashed a dozen heads
A dozen more did 01,
An' whin th' fun wuz done they wns
Nary foeinan by.
They lift a dozen fowls behlnd-r
(Not belli* ca ful)
An' me an* Pat dlvhJded these
At Murphy's turkey raffle.
—Detroit Prce Press.
"Going to celebrato Thanksgiving at
your house, Dph
"I'so fcerd not, sah. Dat neJghboh ob
mine dat raises chickens an' tu'keys hab
jes* bought a bulldog, sah."
"Jimmle," asked tho Sunday school
teacher, "why is it that so many peopl.
are grateful on Thanksgiving?"
'Cause that's the time they alius gets
turkey."
THANKSGIVING DAY DREAM OF A TURKEY ELYSIUM.
r:
The First Thanksgiving.
The snow upon the hillside lay,
And thatcocd the cottage roof.
Tho web of vines by the Pilgrim's door
Was filled with Icy woof.
The boughs wero leafless on the trees.
Across the barren plain
Tho north wind swept despairingly
And moaned like ono In pain.
(It whimpered like some
cia
... child
That clasps Its parent's band
Aud pleads for bread when there Is nono
In all the dreary li^nd.)
Above the llttlo Plymouth town,
Circllug with empty maw,
Mocking their hunger, flew the crow,
Shrieking his "haw, haw, haw."
Patience, a blue-eyed maiden.
(Her eyes with tears were dim,)
From hunger feeble, trembling knelt
And raised her voice to ]Jim.
Dear Dod," she said in pleading tones,
Tender, plalutlve and sweet,
•'We's almost 'tarved, an' won't *00
please
Send down some flugs to eat?"
Then all day long her watchful eyes
Gazed down tho village street.
Not doubting but she soon would see
borne one with "flngs to eat.''
And, lo! before the sun had set,
With wild fowl laden down.
Four hunters from the forest drear
Cuxne marching Into town.
And (as In answer to the prayer),
To add to all the cheer.
'And banish famine from the place,
Came Indians with deer.
The joyous villagers rushed out
The ladened ones to meet.
But Patience knelt -and said:
Dod,
JAPS WERE READY.
WORLD ASTONISHED AT THEIR
WONDERFUL PREPAREDNESS.
History of the Russo-Japanese War
Will Rank Anions the Most Thrilling
and Kpoch-Mnkinu Chronicles Ever
Penned*
It was not until the Cliiuo-Jnpanese
war, writes Joseph Strong, tlmt Cau
casians began to. suspect that the lit
tle brown men of the Mikado's empire
were not like other orientals that they
were quick-witted, alive to the main
chance and willing to do. Notwith
standing the object lesson taught the
nations by this wonderfully illuminat
ing campaign, they were only aroused
and not fully wakened. The western
world soon" relapsed into its former
apathy concerning Japan's eltloreH
cence. Japan iu the meantime contin
ued to unfold silently so uuostcntu
tlously, indeed, tlmt Uuss'm, who most
of all had reason to observe, wjis
lulled ln\o a fatal lethargy.
It is interesting to turn back to the
opening of the prestMit war and re
view the opinions of those who ox
pressed themselves as to the probable
outcome of the quarrel. Those opin
ions were the best judgment of the
military experts of ail nations, but
time has discredited them. Some of
(hem admitted the naval superiority of
Japan and predicted a temjorary suc
cess for the audacious Islanders. Not
one of tlibm professed to believe that
the land forces of the Mikado would
prove formidable to tho Czar's well
trained and hlgltf.v disciplined troops.
The whole wo: Id shuddered at the in
evltakle disaster which awaited the
little browu men nt their first contact
with the Cossacks of tho Don. Those
Cossacks of the Don! Loss than a
Tanks,
For sendln' flngs to cat."
Training Down.
Tne Turkey—Why don't you eat It?
The Boy—I'm savin' up for Thanks
giving.
Tho Turkey—No, thank you—so am I.
—Minneapolis Journal.
1
STUDyiSQ TOrOQRAPlIV.
sucli. This wis li.v no means all. A
far more Ingenious and laborious
scheme was devised for the purposo
of making Korea and Mimchurla us
well known to the Japanese soldier as
were the charming vallcy.i of his na
tive land. Sections of (lie Asian con
tinent held by Russia were reproduced
in topographical minuteness, and
maneuvers were executed upon tiles'*
supposititious centers of activity. Thus
tiie entire surface of the country
which was to be invaded was mado
familiar to the men who were to light
the battle.
As a further Instance of the extra
ordinary foresight and adaptability
shown! by this unique people may I)')
cited tlie readiness and ease with
which tlio land forces made tlie pas
sage of the rivers. Every point in Ills
detail of these often perilous under
takings was worked out to its most
definite finish long before the army
pet foot on Asian soil. It seems In
credible, but It is a fact ncvprthelosa,
that tlie material for making tlia
bridge across tlie 'J'aitso at Liaoyang
was ready to put in place many wcdIm
before It was needed. Much of It, in
deed, wns brought over to tlie main
land when the army of invasion
landed.
This bridge was a work which Illus
trates admirably the depth and effec
tiveness of Japanese resiurees. Itwai
made of boats separable into sections
so carefully fashioned that they could
be put Into a harmonious whole with
surprising quickness. The exact loca
tion of the crossing was dcteriiilneJ
before tlie embarkation of the army
for Korea, and there was consequently
neither lack nor oversuuply cf ii:a
terlal. The sections were so s.nali an!
tlie wood of which they were con
•tructed wan so light that they
were easily moved about and did not
even require ponies to transport them.
Two man. with a section strung upon
a pole, could carry it without great
fatigue.
AN OLD SAYING FALSIFIED.
Lightning Struck Washington Monu
ment Thrice In a Year.
According to Colonel 0. S. Brom
well, superintendent of public build
ings and grounds, the Washington
monument was struck by lightning
three times durlug the last year. First,
011 Sunday, July 14, 3903. No damage
was done to the monument, but the
lightning entered the motor-room from
the shaft, burning the Insulation from
the telephone wires, jumped to the
switch-board, burned out the under
load coil for the I. T. 13. circuit-break
er aud relay coil, thereby stopping the
running of the elevator until the relay
coll was reVound.
On the morning of Wednesday,
April 27, 1C04, the shaft was again
struck. The bolt entered at the toR,
burned out the telephone there, thence
passed down the Iron columns to the
lower floor through the shaft alley to
the motor-room, where it burned out
a relay coil on the switch-board
JAPANESE BRIDGING THE TA1TSE RIVER.
year has brought about a radical
transfer of sympathy. AH the romance
and poetry which from time imme
morial have been their heritage have
taken wings.
Now that the secret of Japan's abil
ity to crush with a sudden blow is"
known and ban beeu so tiptly express
ed In the single word preparedness,,
it is not difficult *to comprehend that
she is able to reap the benefit of that
speedy first stroke by a devotion to
detail such as has never before come
within the observation of man. This
is best exemplified by the constant
and all embracing tact which fs exer
cised by an army on the inarch. This
wise prevision is not the offspring of
sudden Imperative need as it nrises,
but is the result of long and exhautlvc
experiment and (raining. During the
years when Japan was preparing for
the final adjustment of her differences
with Russia it was the chief work of
her military experts to familiarize tho
army with every situation which was
likely to arise. Roth ofilccrs and sol
diery were put to tho diligent study
of geography—a single map with all
the world save eastern Asia blotted
out Upon this map were distinctly
traced the features of the coming bat
tlefield. No stream was too insignifi
cant to find a place on it, 110 hamlet
too remote to be brought clearly into
view. All sorts of natural obstacles
wero iudlcated, and fordable streams
and navigable waters' were marked as
tlon the wire Is connected with the
switchboard.
During the year 1 'I'l.S.'.U persons vis
ited the top" of the monument, of
which number 133,001 ascended in the
elevntor and 30,773 by the stairway,
making a total of 2,442,800 persons
wlio have visited the top since the
shaft was opened to the public Oct. 0,
18SS.—Washington Star.
Bought a Farm to Own Tree.
Ail the country knows Elihu Root,
the lawyer, man of attnlrs, and cabinet
officer, but there are less-known sides
to Ills make-up which are, perhaps,
more Indicative of the man himself,
and which are, too. more Intorestln
for the very reason that they are less
appreciated. For instance, lie is
enough of a sentimentalist to linve
bought a farm that he might own a
certain tree.
lie was born In Cabinet Hall, one
of the buildings of Hamilton College,
Xew York, where' "ills father, Oreu
Hoot, was a professor. In his boyhood
years the two used to take long walks
together, and, time aud again, on tlielr
homeward way, it was uniier a splen
did hemlock oil lvlrkland Farm that
they would rest. The hilltop com
manded a magnificent view of Hie
Oriskany Valley, across* to ,tlie Adlron
dacks to the north, and often the elder
of the pedestrians would say, as they
started on again: "I wish I owned
that tree."
In the years since there have been
many changes at Hamilton and In the
Horoscope of Prince.
Credulous persons who believe In
horoscopes will be Interested Iu ono
published by 11 Mattino, of Naples,
concerning the baby prince of Pied
mont.
According to tills oracular an
nouncement, the .future King of Italy
will require close attention and great
medical care in his earlier yenfs. He
will be in serious1 physical danger. It
seems at the respective ages of ten
months and four years, but will live
If well cared, for.
Ills destiny begins to tike sljape
3918, when he will be 14 years old. Iu
1023, at the ago of 19, a "great change
will take place In Ilia existence," and
In 1927, when he Is 23, there will be
an event which will have momentous
consequences for himself and for tho
Italian nation.
The Prince will live, says the ora
cle, to see the fall of the papacy, and
its reConstltution on reformed lines.
He will also see tho downfall of En
gland's great power, and tlie final po
litical union of France and Itajy after
unprecedented disasters to France.
The culmination of Italy's prosperi
ty will come in 1957, when the pres
ent baby—then a King—will bo fifty
three years old.—London Express.
Cynical,
"See here!" exclaimed the city edit
or, "you speak of the bride as being
'leil to tike altar.'"
"Well?" replied tlie new reporter.
"Well, that's nonsense. There never
was a bride who couldn't find her way
there, no matter what the obstacles
might be."—Philadelphia Ledger,
Tim 3 Needed.
Wife—Breakfast will be served In
about fifteen minutes.
Husband—Why, I thought the cook
had everything ready.
Wife—So she has everything ^but
that new "instantaneous breakfast
food."—Philadelphia Ledger.
Actions speak louder than words. but
they do not speak as often.
Kisses that are not Intoxicating aro
the kind that drive men to.drink.
TWO LITTLE BEGGARS.
Up through the meadows of Baby
land two
Little beggars have como to town,
And one he has eyes of the brightest
blu.\
And the other one's eyes are brown.
Any they beg all day for "a story,
please!"
These two little, dear little men
thence along the electric cable to the They crowd my rocker and climb to
dynamo-room in the power-house,
where It entered the ground.
Lightning arresters were at once
placed hi the motor-room at the monu
ment to protect the switchboard and I
machinery there, and to protect tho I
machinery In the pit, and oil the bot
tom floor of tbe shaft a one-half Inch
copper cable was connected with the
bottom of one of the iron columns In
the drum pit nntl grounded to the
water pipe in the' motor-room. To
protect the switchboard of the gener
ating plant In the power-house a No.
0 copper wire was grounded to the
water pipe In the lower engine-room,
and when the plant is not in opera* I
my knees-
Oh, what can I do with them?
'Please teh us a story about Jack
Frost,
And the snow that comes with a
whirl
'Bout the HWb Little Pigs, and one
got left
And when jyou were a little girl:
'And the one you know about Jack
and Jill
And 'bout Little Red Riding Hood,
And all how she met the bad, naugh
ty WOu,
And her grandma lived in the
wood:
,4And
A VOLUBLE VOWEL.
'Ungrateful people! Oh, dear! Oh,
dear," piped a small voice. "It Is too
bad! I am not going to stand It
much longer. I'll just leave the Eng
lish alphabet. I will, and go over to
France, where they do try to pro
nounce me, even If It Is queerly?"
Helen, who was just starting for
school, looked about her. Who was
talking? There was certainly no one
In the room. "Hello," she cried, try
ing not to feel scared.
'W-h-e-r-e are you, and w-h-a-t's
your name?" stammered Helen.
'I am the fifth vowel, and the way
I am treated Is perfectly shameful.
I could excuse the baby calling- me
"oo," went on Master U, with rising
passion "but when men of letters are
careless. It is too much! Letters, In
deed!" spitefully. "THey are hardly
men of consonants. I should trans
country rouud about, but the old liem- I port them to Siberia, or at least to
ioek has remained untouched—and the I Russia, and then they'd miss the
other day Elihu Root bought Kirkland
Farm and the tree which, he declares,
has long beeu a landmark In his life.—
Success.
vowels! But It's just because we arc
so# Imposed upon. Sister E is really
the only one of us they treat at all
decently, she always works so much
lor them. And sister O they respect
a little, though when I'm with her
they turn and twist us all sorts of
ways, especially if and H. join us."
"But what do they do to you?" ask
ed Helen, much interested In /this
long speech.
Do!" screamed U. "Why, they
slight me! I'm only safe In books, or
when they call, the roil, that Is to say
the alphabet. Please spell 'duty."'
"D-u, doo. t-y, dooty," said Helen
glibly
"Oh, of course!" bitterly. "Now
spell 'tutor.'"
"T-u, too, t-o-r, tootor."
"Yes, you are Just as bad as the
rest. Never give a fellow half
chance
"What do you mean, anyhow
Can't you explain?" asked Helen.
paused a moment, and then said
firmly: "Of course 1 can. Take the
word 'mute.' You've heard of that,
1 hope. Oh, you have! Well, do you
call it 'moot?''
"Of course not," said Helen, with
a laugh.
"Then you have no right to call
duty 'dooty r, when my double first
cousin W is in a. word with E, you
certainly shouldn't say 'noos' for
•new3,' which ought to rhyme with
pews. Do you understand?"
"Why, yes!" said Helen, admiring
ly. "It really doesn't seem fair, when
you put it that way, does it? I must
try and think of more," cmlllng.
"1 only ask justice," said U, plain
lively "and as for thought," holding
Ills head up proudly, "the highest
classes in England and America al
ways respect me, and linguists and
elocutionists honor me," with empha
sis.
"Tell me something about your
family—do?" urged Helen.
"Ah! I'm glad lo see you are In
terested in us," said U, graciously.
"Well, let me see! We'll begin with
brother A, as he's the head of the
house. In tho first place, our pedi
gree is a long one—'way back to the
old Romans, you know."
"To be sure—the Latin text!" cried
Helen, anxious to show she knew
something.
a
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Jack and his Bean and Three
Littlj Bears
And one that you never have told
And tell us another and then one
other!"
Cry these little" beggars so bold.
What shall I do with them? what
shall I do
With beggars that clamor and tease
And beg me for stories the whole day
through-
Such dear little beggars as these!
—Rosa Hartwick Thorpe, in Little
Folk:!.
FLOWERS IN SOAP BUBBLES.
To blow a flower Inside a soap bub
ble, the surface of a plate should be
covered with a soapy solution at least
a half inch thick. In the center of
this place any compact flower, over
which place a tin funnel. While slow
ly lifting the latter, continue blowing
until a large film has been made. The
funnel Is then disengaged, after hav
ing turned It at. right angles.
A MECHANICAL TOY GAME.
A new use for the tin mechanical
toys sold on the streets and In the
shops Is suggested In a recent num
ber of one of ths household maga
zines. At a child's party the toys
were raced by the small guests, a
handsome silk pennant going to the
child whose toy wou. This might be
made an amusing feature of a grown
up party, each guest bringing his own
toy, and, of course, trying to select
an especially rapid one. They might
be raced for prizes, pr partners, or
tables. If the party included a pro
gressive game of cards. The very
absurdity of the proceeding would
make It interesting.
a
nodded. "A, I and O ar£ tin
strongest .of us. They often stand
alone. But sister E Is in everything
nearly—quite intrusive, I think. How
ever, as I said, she 13 quite overwork
ed, and can't help herself, poor vowel!
But, to go on. brother I Is ait egotist,
always strutting by himself, when
he gets a chancc, and swelling Into
a capita1. E and .myself n™ver have
chance to be big. except when wo
lead a sentence or begin a proper
name. Then, there's sister O, tho
mo?t emotional creature when 'sho'8
alone, always surprised or shocked
or sorry or glad. And now for my
self," complacently. "I'm very de
pendent, you know. O guards me a.
good deal, and rarely quit: me—hoi
he! See?"
Helen looked rather dubious for a.,
moment, and then brightoned. "OJ
course!
"I hate some of the consonants,
though," chattered on, with a pet
tish air. "N Is always making mo un
happy or uncomfortable and with
—rough old thing!—I get rude, rush
about, and run into somo trouble or^x
other always. It's fun sometimes
be with but people are often very
disagreeable when 1 walk out be
tween and N—ha! ha! I have-to
laugh. You know I'm the last vowel
In tho alphabet, for W is only my
double first cousin, and Is a kind
foster brother of I. But It's awfully
dull down there with W Zj
they hardly ever go with me."
Helen nodded thoughtfully.
"And now," continued tho letter*
brightly, "before 1 leave but as
Helen listened eagerly, the sceno be
gan to change. She found herself in
a schoolroom, with her head on a
desk, listening to a chorus from the'
reading class, led by the teacher.
"Not dooty, but duty: not tootor, but
tutor not noos, but news not
stoopld, but stupid."
"You'll catch It, going ofT nodding
like that!" said a familiar voice In
her ear, which. sounded very like that
of Mabel Lawton, her deskmate.
But where Is U?" cried Helen, e*g
erly.
Where Is you!" mimicked Mabel,
smiling. "Oh, my eye, what gram
mar! Why, here I aiji, of course,"
with a cbnvinclng pinch.
This rouser- was effectual, but
Helen never forgot her two minutes'
dream.—A. J. Backus In Nicholas.
DETECTIVE INGENUITY.'
Scratch of the Screwdriver Showed
Where Booty Wa« Hid.
Nearly four years ago a number of
Nelson relics were stolen from Green
wich Hospital. Nothing was heard
them until February last, when one
Carter wrote to the British Museum
from Melbourne and offered to restore
tho Nelson watch and 8»al for a re
ard of £120. Later on the man him
self arrived is London and boldly went
to Scotland Yard, where he sought to
drive a bargain with the officials. The
police refused to d'Eal, but Induced
Carter to give his address.
Inspector Arrow found, by Inquiries
at Carter's lodgings, that he had re
moved one of his articles of luggage—
a Gladstone bag—and for this he made
untiring search at the left-luggage of
fices of all th9 railway stations. He
was, it was true, mar~illously helped
by luck, for Carter '•l been rash
enough to give his own name. Even
when the bag -was found -there was
no sign of th-e mUsIng loct, and noth
ing in the laast suspicious.
But there was a concetina in -the
bag. In itself that was not incriminat
ing. But oaipcerUnas may hold things
more substantial than doleful sounds,
and the inspector Icoked it carefully
over while he. debated whether he
ehould mak9 an autopsy. A scratch
near one cf the screws caught his
eye. The scratch suggested the ama
teur use of a screwdriver It cried
aloud that some ono bad been open
ing the concertina, and as the owner
was a man "known to the police," his
object In opening it was more likely
to be concealment than a desire to
look at th» works. Inspector Arrow
was right. Inside the concertina was
the Ne°s:in watch, and the reward
hunting Carter -was laid by the heels.
London Telegraph. i*
Mexico City's Progress.
The unprecedented amount of Im
provement that Is going on in the res
idence section of the Mexican capital
exceeds even that of the business por
tion of the city. In the new colonies,
opened largely by American capital,
and in fact throngnout the city and
suburbs, thousands of residences and
groups of flats are in cours3 of erec
tion, and with the close of the rainy
season this r-ontk hundreds more will
be begun. Mexico City is every year
becoming a more delightful place for
permanent residence. The suburban
towns of the valley are being built up
In a substantial manner that was un
known before the coming of the elec
tric railway. Many families who for
merly went out of the city for the
summer season are now living all the
year round In their suburban homes.
The great expansion of the clty'B resi
dence section has had a wonderful
effect upon property values, that have
increased from 200 to 500 per CPiU.
in many instances within a few years.
—Modern. Mexico.
For More Irrigation.
Irrigation plans already outlined in
California, Oregon and the Dakotas
will Involve the expenditure, in rounl
number?, of $27,000,000, and reclaim
a million cf acres of land, capable oi
supporting a population of five hun
dred thousand. This wll^ be making
blades of grass grow by the acra
where not a single blada grew before.
As the money is to be repaid ttf lha
reclamation fund from, the sale of the
reclaimed lands, the process can be
repeated indefinitely, until all the
lands known In American geographies
of half a century ago as "The Great
American Desert" have been conqu-r.
ed to the uses of civilization.
The Evangollcal Church Council ci
Hungary has given taxpaylng womei
tb« right to.ygte,