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I HA by Edith Vyatt. JN Lake View then' once lived as neighbors two children, a little hoy named Mllo Cos Atkinson, lint railed Butter, and a little fckl, liiiined and called Pearl l'orter. To this little girl her grandfather, Mujor roller, showed an alTcctloii so devoted as to 1- insularly supposed almost ruinous, "lie just spoils that child." Mrs. Atkinson would ny, as flu looked out of her window and saw Pearl fastening up the Major's mustaches with hairpins; and she would turn away with a sigh. It was, iwrhapn, this devotion, hut more prob ably a native Impulse of the heart, that niadv l'earl an unusually vain child. She wan a pretty little thin.;, with a floating icist of hair nnd large, brown eyes, always beautifully dressed, in little, Bt id', white embroidered clothes. She was born with a sense of carriage; and she Could not help knowing when ladies said In loud whispers, "Isn't the sweet?" Her reputation as a Proudy-cat among the children of Lake View had. however, been founded less by her personality thau by an incldout of Lei early yor.th. When rue was only four years old she had beeti given a little blue Bilk parasol with an Ivory handle. With this ot church, she had been left In the p'.'W by her aunt when that lady went up to the communion rail. When Mrs. Bur Jen had reached it and turned, that Ibo'.o. returning might pass her, "what was the amusement of the con gregation nnd her own astonishment on seeing l'earl tripping lightly up the aisle, with her new blue parasol opened and held gracefully above her head. The aunt herself Avas a very dressy lady, anil she more thoroughly than any other member of the family sym pathized with Pearl in her taste for making calls, for Avearing kid gloves, and fcr carrying a small cardcase with a rose folded lu It This aunt, Major Porter's daughter, was a large woman, with long red cheeks, tilted blue eyes and an over whelming, tightly busked figure. At the top of her small forehead, long face and towering bulk she always wore o. glittering little bonnet. She lived In Washington, and she was able to pet and indulge her niece only on occasional visits On these visits Mrs. Atkinson used to watch with longing these two op posite and fashionable types walking out to the carriage together. She loved Butter, but she had al ways dreamed of having just such a child as Pearl. Butter's tastes were different from Pearl's. He had no imagination for the world of graceful convention. His companions were other grubby, freck led little boys, most of them disre- gardfully dressed in trousers bagging about two Inches below the knee. But ter numbered among his acquaint ances a boy who had run away from home, a boy Avho had a whip tatooed on his arm and a man supposed by Butter's circle to be a murderer. But ter cut the man's grass, and when the man gave him fifteen cents the mar ket price Is ten Butter handed him back the unnecessary five, and said, "No blood money for me." The man bad laughed In a puzzled way. Of course, If he had done any thing else, it Avould have given him aAray. nutter aiso Knew a noy avuo had a printing press; and in partnership Avith him he had conducted successfully an enterprise of printing pink and green highly glazed calling cards for the ladies of the neighborhood. Besides the cash capital they derived from this source, they realized every sum raer a large Income of pins and neAvs- papers from circuses In the barn Major Porter sometimes attended these circuses with Pearl and sat in a box for ten neAVspapers, and though he was so enchanted Avith Pearl, he used to Avatch Avith a pang of envy Butter's lithe wiry frame turning hand springs In the backyard. For though he had never had golden curls nor carried a parasol, he had once tumbled on the grass and chased, fire engines in a dusty and happy oblivion of the customs of tb& Avorld, Once a year a circus came to one of the empty lots of Lake View, west of the Forters It stayed for one day; and then pursued its glorious march In honor of more estern cities. This day Avas one long haze of delight for Butter Atkinson. Its ecstacy began in the morning Avhen he Avent Avith his irieuds over to the lot to see the tent pitched, and it lasted through the con cert and at the end of the circus. Mr. Atkinson always took Butter had never thought of not taking him until one miserable day, when an uu eonsidering Vice-President-elect and his thoughtless Avife spent twenty-four i:ours or ncing onic-namou in the neigii- l.orhood when the circus was cute;-- '. ? , '. ' - w ' ? '. ' j' .K" M t f'g ', ,. ..;'.. .;. i .'. ;;.; ..,. ; .. ;. ; 5 SPF AT I , -. .,. , , ... I. .1, d . given for Mrs. Kendricks at the Por ters' home, lie whs an old friend of the Major. Mrs. Atkinson assisted In receiving; Butter was Invited by Mrs. Burden to open the door. She believed this to have Wen a piece of kindest consideration. Mrs. Atkinson, too, aid that Butter Avould bo glad to re member it when he was an old man; and she could not understand Ahy he looked ?o morosely nt the clean clothes sh had Avith such pleasure put out on his bed. lie Avalked out to the Avoodshcd after lunch, kicking his heels sullenly and listlessly against each other, nnd when he came out his eyes Avere red. The thought of the Avhite elephant had been too much for him. Ilis fath er's suggestion that it had been Avhite- Avasneij Avas not alleviating, is n whitewashed elephant an ever-day sight? He had visions of running aAvay. But he knew he should not run away; he Avould stay scrawling his fingers in uncomfortable gloves and opening Por ter's door for dressed-up and AvorthleSs ladles, perfectly healthy and able to do it for themselves, while, amid the sawdust, the opening procession was shining and glittering past unseen, never to be seen by his longing eyes. lie observed, in the open Avlndow, Pearl and Major Porter, at their daily after-dinner game of "Old Maid." Major Porter Avas not a kindergart- ner, and he Avas almost invariably "Old Maid" each time Avith ringing shouts of glee from his victorious grandchild, poised elegantly on the wlndowsill. But to-day her poise seemed less airy In its light case. Butter heard no shouts, and when she turned and Avaved her hand to him he suav that her eyes, too, were red. Major Porter was smiting his head with despair and chagrin at being a third time doomed to a single life, and eliciting from his opponent only a very faint smile. Was Tearl, too, not going to the cir cus? Far from It. For days her grand father had been bringing home hand bills and posters; for days he had dis cussed with rearl Avhat they both should wear; what time they should start; how many glasses of lemonade they should have; Avhether they should look at the animals before or after the performance, and now all this was to be on the day of the reception. There were to be only ladies at the reception. There was no reason why Major Por ter should remain home for it, and his enthusiasm for the circus had shown no change nor abatement. In the presence of his mistaken devo tion Tearl could not endure to confess, even to her mother, that her heart was torn at the thought of her new fringed sash, the gift of her aunt, and hoAV tinued the Major. "You ran get your hat, I can black my shoes. Sam cim hitch up the horses, pearl can have it B. and S. or something, and then avc'11 go." "Father," murmured Mrs. Burden In important haste, "Mrs. Atkinson got a new suit for him. especially for this. Don't think " "Well, Butter. I guess I'll have to g over and get your mother to let you open the door at the evening reception. That's the way Ave'll lis It out Avith her." Meanwhile Mrs. Porter had by In spiration divined the cause of her daughter's distress. She came back as the Major was starting off. "I think l'earl Avould U'ttor stay Avitli us, father." she said. "I really believe she Avished to assist in receiv ing. I am going to let her pass around the crackers." It would seem that providence had arranged for a variety of tastes In the world. For on that afternoon Pearl floated airily and elegantly among groups of gloved ladies; under the bulging, bil lowing tent, nmld the odors of sawdust and the ciies of lemouade-meu, sat Butter, between Major Porter nnd Sam. throwing peanut shells between the open board benches, his happy eyes absorbed in the passing giraffes and ponies. Major Porter Avas not looking at the ponIe3 and giraffes, but he, too, was very happy; he Avas Avatching Butter. Kcav York Sun. PCmiLDFCM 5 vl 'r Ti r,, y4 .-TV '. WITH FOUR TRICCERS. New Weapon Sixteen Which Carrie Chargci. A rnost successful test has been given to a repeating revolver Avhich promises to become one of the most commonly used Aveapons of its kind in any part of the world, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat. The pistol fires sixteen shots Avlthout reloading, and is accurate in every particular. It has but three working parts, is light iu Aveight, cannot possibly get out of order, and should any of the cartridges fail to fire, all that is necessary is to press the trigger again to bring another cartridge into position and fire it. An explanation of the weapon's op eration is quickly and easily given. The handle of the pistol is the maga zine, and contains a chain of sixteen cartridges. This chain is moved Avith each pressure of the trigger, the same pressure firing one cartridge and push ing the next into position. The pistol is so constructed that a trigger is al ways ready to be pressed, and, there fore, the Aveapon can be fired as rap idly as the operator can press the trig ger. There are four triggers, all of one piece of metal, and revolving so that Avhlle one of the triggers is ready for the pressure of the finger another is moving the hammer into position and a third is ready to fall into place Avithin the trigger guard. The three working parts of the pis tol are trigger, the hammer and a spi ral cone, and they are so arranged that to miss fire Avith this" pistol is almost an impossibility. Standard cartridges are used in the pistol. The weapon was invented by W. J., Turnbull. AS i mix AVtio l to IllMine? "I'm in the ;uMV narrow," isaid the pocket Unite ot .John, "BecaiiHC, you nc, 1 lcel to blnme for tl. that I have dow. At school on Monday morning last 1 raade my owner late, While with ray point he slowly scratched hit name upon hi ti'.atc. On Tui-Kdsy afternoon he stopped to p!ay awliile with me By cutting deep his name again upon a cherry tree. On Wednesday oh, what can I ay to tell bow (.hocked 1 am? He used my blade to open wide a jar of cunar;t jam. On Thursday 1 was ued to do the sad dest dfed of all: , I cut a lock of curly hair from Nelly s pretty doll. Oa Friday "I waa discing through the side of Willy's drum, When suddenly my blade was snapped and cut mv master's thumb. On Saturday (that in to-day J my blades nre nicely shut, And John has pot a bandage round the place that 1 have cut. And bo, you see, I'm sorry for the mis chief 1 have done; But tell rue, please, am I to blame as much as Master .lolin ?" John Lee, in Cassell's Little Folks. H.'iy and Archie. Ray has a boy friend about his own age named Archie. They are in tin? same class at school. The teacher put them both up into a higher class to gether, they did so well. That is, they Avere allowed to skip one class. They play for hours together. Archi? is a fine boy, and they botn like each other very much, but they are always quarreling. Then Bay aviII say, "I avIII never play with that Archie again." And Archie will say, "I will never play with that Bay again." And yet the next time you see them they will be playing away as pleasantly as ever and will be Just as good friends as before. Did you ever see such boys? I somc- A pLoiograpli i1ios thit l'rlrr A!ha is only about the ' of nn ordi nary 4"g, and much smaller than the school girl who was luddii- the d New York Herald. Hm TUltt Hop Walker. We need twocorks nnd four matches. The matches Ave Insert ii:t one of the corks In suh a way that they form the anna and legs of the llttl" man, n shown in figure. These arms anil legs Ave can bend lu all directious, giving the little man all the possible positions of a tight rope Avalker. The head we make of a round piece of cork, the no:e of a small chip of cork, which Ave Insert into the head; the mouth we cut Avith a penknife, and the eyes as avcII as eyebroAvs Ave burn in with u red-hot piece of wire. To balance our little man on the rope Ave cruelly stick tAvo forks in his body, as shown In figure. If we make an in cision in one of his legs and give the thread forming the rope a slight slope to one side, we can make him Avalk from one corner of the room to the other. New York Tribune. A PUZZLE PICTURE. now she could not wear it at the re ception, nor walk around Avith the la dies. She had the dignified delicacy of many honorable' little girls, and she felt that it would be disloyalty to her grandfather to acknoAvledge that she was no longer interested in the circus. Her aunt said she cried because the heat made her nervous. , "She doesn't look to me able to go tooting off to that hot circus, father," she said, coming up to the window. "I'm afraid so," said Mr. Porter, fol lowing her. "Do you care so much about it, darling?" Pearl's eyes filled again at this. !'0h, Snooks '11 be all right for the circus-," said Major Torter, with hasty, blind consolation, as Pearl's mother started into the house with her. to bathe her eyes. It was his fixed beljef that the circus was the most ecstatic pleasure of every child, and any alter native an outrageous disappointment. Never mind if you aren't all right, pet." said Mrs. uuraen, witn inspired dullness. "Here's Butter. He isn't going and doesn't want to go. He wants to see Mrs. Kendrlcks. And, Butter, Mrs. Kendricks has some little boys of her own such nice, polite lit tle boys I Avlsh you could knoAV them." Butter looked submissively as Mrs. Burden's benevolent, unperceiviug eyes impressively fixed upon him. "Why isn't Butter going to the cir cus?" inquired Major Porter. Butter made no reply. "Father too busy, I guess," pursued the Major. "That it?" "Butter is going to see Mrs. Ken dricks this afternoon," replied Mrs. Burden. "He is going to open the door for the ladies." Major Porter whistled. Ho looked suspiciously at Butter's red eyelids. "Well, how would it be to have But ter come along with the circus party this afternoon and let Mrs. Ken dricks open the door for the ladies her self?'' He gave Butter a nudge under the table at this last abominably weak jest. Butter could not refrain fro:u a sullc Ilavo You Noticed That A wise man never takes a penny fee his thoughts. It is an easy matter to be good on a good income. The rooster does the crowing, tut the hen attends to business. Success is often a matter of spec tacular effect. A disregard of appearances is as often due to a lack of sense as of dol lars. A trifling argument may end in a record-smashing quarrel. A blue-ribbon friendship is better than an honorable-mention love. The fellow who gushes over his rela tions seldom gives his relations a chance to gush over him. Men are moral triangles, with a busi ness side, a club side and a domestic side. With some women love is like a case of malaria first a chill and then a fever. The people who "told you so" for "your own good" and keep a supply of "sense of duty" always on tap need q shotgun to put them out of business. New York Tress. The. Onlooker' Comments. On the half-demolished Avail of ac old Broadway building sat four AA'ork men the other afternoon, their feet dangling in air, Avhile the. men were prying bricks from the wail with tht help of steel bars. -Below, on the op posite side of Broadway, stood a gap ing crowd, stopped, probably, by the sight of the rope strung from eaci: Avorkman's waist to a point on the fire-escapes cf the adjacent building, cne or two stories higher un. So ob vious was the purpose cf the ropes that a curious foot passenger expect ed comment upon the rarity of tht F'lfrht rather than c:i the need of the device-. In just thirty seconds, how ever, six persons were heard to ex plain: "The ropes are to catch them i:i case they fall." and ucthiiig else aw.s said. New Y'ork Post. jul. x mniML -m -mm mi i,i i . ium unmi . -tvut n ft rnnmn i i '"" 1 '"r'i ' i "i T- ' i i. i ' tMM4m taum v wnt .f. ,iu4i-.iimjmjikTtu h&MiAiX 4rtMmMu nw&iMti jlm. "SOMEBODY HAS TAKEN MY BALL OF YARN.' THE CULPRIT? CAN YOU FIND times wonder if they will grow up as good friends as they now are, if they will mate and match up as Avell to gether ten years from now. Sometimes the other boys, knowing they are really good friends, like to urge them on and set them to fighting, and they are foolish enough to let those other boys get them to do this, but perhaps some day they will learn better. Do you know of any other boys who ought to stop quarreling Avith then friends? Brooklyn Eagle. Horge Ho 1! lister Than a Dog, A French scientific journal an nounced a fewr weeks ago that the smallest horse in the Avorld had just arrived in New York City. Sixpence, it said, his name Avas, and it gave his height as seventy centimetres. Noav, i Queer Home of a Mouse. Mice are to be found the world over,, and nearly always infest the haunts of meh. They often take queer no tions into their heads about where they shall make their homes, and one of the oddest of these is here recorded. The mouse built a nest iu the tea kettle, and as the lid was not open enough to allow ingress and egress by way of it, even if the mouse could have reached it, the little animal went in and out by way of the spout. This answered very well until the little fel low grew too fat to get through, as he did in time, and one day stuck fast in the spout and died there. A Dancer Clfrti. When a v.-o.r.r.n begins to Catter ycu 4 "! The Busy ISee. Great, Indeed, is the amount of work wnieh a busy bee will do ui a day. Every head of clover consists of about sixty flower tubes, each of Avhich con tains a very small quantity of sugar. Bees will often visit a hundred differ ent heads of clover before retiring to the hive, and in order to obtain the sugar necessary for a load must, there fore, thrust their tongues into about (1000 different Cowers. A bee Aviil make tAventy trips a day Avhen the clover patch Is convenient to the hive, and thus will draw the sugar from 10,000 different fioAvers in the course of n siugle day's work. however, the same journal says with some glee that Sixpence has been 'de throned since a smaller horse has just' been discovered in a French circus. This horse is four years old and only sixty-rive centimetres iu height. His uae is Prince Asha. nnd he is the son cf two small Iceland horses or ponies. Why his stature is so remarkably ta'.l Aeronaut's Motto. The up-to-date aeronaut tw:?:s the old saw about as follows: "If you ctm't succeed, fly, t:- again." CiKinnut' Commercial. The about Not in 11U Line. milkman doesn't k-.:r,v nr.-eu or s-ccut v. : di-i'diia d