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B(fTS®0RIS .)W©W"j^W WHICH ONE? .4 __ There were two little kittens, a black and a gray, And grandmother said, with a frown: ‘■It never will do to keep them both, The black one we’d better drown. “Don’t cry, my dear,’’ to tiny Bess, “One kitten's enough to keep; Now run to nurse, for ’tis growing late, And time you were fast asleep.” The morrow dawned, and rosy and sweet, Came little Bess from her nap; The nurse said, “Go into mamma's room, And look in grandma's lap.” “Come hear*” said grandmamma, with a smile, From the rocking-chair where she sat; ‘ ‘God has sent you two little sisters ; Now what do you think of that;” Bess looked to the babies a moment. With their wee heads, yellow and brown, And then to grandmamma soberly said: “Which one are you going to drown?” —Fashion Bazar. A PLOVER ON QUARD. BY KATHAUINE TYNAN HINKSOX. 0 little plover, still circling over Your nest in clover, your house of love, Sure none dare har m it and none alarm it While you are keeping your watch above. ’Tis she doth love you and well'approve you, Your little love-bird so gray and sweet; If hawk and falcon swept down above you, Tis she would trust you the twain to meet. Now let me pass, sir, a harmless lass, sir. With no designs on your eggs of blue. 1 wish your family both health and wealth, sir, And to be as faithful and kind as you. But not a shadow steals o'er the meadow That he will swoop not to drive away; The bee in clover and Wind the rover He fears mean ill to his love in gray. The showers so sunny and sweet as honey Have power to trouble his anxious breast. Now might one purchase for love or money That watchful heart and that pleasant nest! MORE WAYS THAN ONE. ARLY morning; and in every orchard, thicket, and wood the birds were singing in answering i melodies. The little brown lizard that lived under a stone in the brook stuck her head out, and looked about her. “1 do wonder why that tadpole keeps going up there where the water is so shallow,” she said to herself. “I think I’ll just go aud see.” In a moment she had slidden out from under the stone, and up into the soft shallow where she tadpole lay. "Hello!” she said. The tadpole paid no attention to her, but wiggled himself still further up the shore. “Oh, how beautiful!” he whispered to himself. “What is beautiful?” asked the lizard, looking about her inquisi tively. “That singing,” cried the tadpole, ecstatically. “Oh, if I could only sing like those birds!” Then he turned his little, dull eyes on the lizard. “I suppose you have often seen birds coming down to the stream to bathe,” he said. “Do you think I look anything like one?” “Like a bird?” cried the lizard. ■“No, you don’t.” “Well, 1 don’t see why not,” said the tadpole. “To be sure, I haven’t any legs; but I have a tail.” "Yes,” said the lizard. “But birds have beaks and feathers and wings, as well; and you haven’t anything but a body and a tail.” "Tnat is true.” And the tadpole sighed heavily. The bird songs were dying away now, for the sun was fully up; but the tadpole did not seem inclined to move, so the lizard settled herself down more comfortably, and went on talking to him. At first the tadpole was either too shy or too dull to talk; but presently the lizard spoke again of the birds. And then he began to tell her how he had wanted to sing ever since he could remember, and how he had tried and tried until all the fishes and crayfish, and even the water snails, had laughed at him; but he never could make even a sound. He told the lizard, too, that, even after all that, he felt sure that he could sing if he had legs, and could hop about like a bird. After that morning the lizard often came up to visit the tadpole; and he seemed to take greatcomfort in talk ing with her, for she never made fun of him, but tried to plan some way for him to learn to Bing. Once she suggested that, if he were only on the shore, he might be able to do something about it. So be wriggled himself up half out of the water, but almost immediately he grew so sick that the lizard had to pull him back again by his tail, feel ing terribly frightened all the while lest it should break. It was the very next morning that the lizard found the tadpole in a state of wild excitement. “Oh, lizard, lizard!” he cried, shaking all over from his nose to his tail. “Just look at me! I’m getting legs!” It was true. There they were, still very small acd weak, but really legs. The lizard and the tadpole had been too busy talking of how they could make them grow to notice that they were already budding. They were still more excited when, soon afterward, they saw near the front part of the tadpole's body two more little buds; and the lizard was sure these would prove to be wings. It waB a terrible blow to them when they found they were not wings at all, but legs. “ Now it’s all over!” cried the tad pole in despair. “ It was bad enough to not have wings; but now that I’m getting legs this way, there’s no knowing where it’ll end.” The lizard, too, was almost help less for awhile, until she suddenly remembered how a crayfish she had known had lost one of its claws in a fight and it hard hardly hurt it at all; and she suggested that she might pull the two front lege off. The tad pole was very willing; but at the first twitch he cried out, “Ouch! that hurtsl” so the lizard had to stop. She could not but feel, however, that something might have been done if the tadpole had not been such a coward. But worse wbb to follow. One morning before the lizard was up, the tadpole came wriggling over to the door of her house. “Lizard! liz ard! Come out htre!” he cried; and, as soon as she appeared, he breath lessly begged her to get a piece of eel-grass and measure his tail. “I’ve been afraid it was shrinking for some time,” he said. “And now I’m al most sure. And I’ve been feeling sj strangely, too! Sometimes I feel as though I must have air; and I get up on a stone, so that I am almost out of the water, and only then do I feel comfortable.” Hastily the lizard measured the tadpole’s tale; and then they sat staring at each other in silent conster nation. It was almost gone! Still, the lizard would not give up all hope. She knew of a wise old crayfish, who lived further down the stream; and, after bidding the tad pole stay where he was until she re turned, she hastened away to beg the old crayfish to come and look at the tadpole and give his advice. In a very little while she was back again bringing the old crayfish with her. He came crawling along, look ing both ways at once with his pop eyes, and twiddling his feelers; but the moment he came to where the tadpole was he stopped short in sur prise. “Why,this is no sick tadpole!’ he cried. Then he added, address ing the tadpole: “Why are you here? Why aren’t you out in the swamp, singing with all the rest af them? Don’t you know you’re a frog?” “A frog!” cried the lizard; but the young tadpole-frog leaped clear out of the brook, with a joyous cry. “A frog!” he shouted. “A frog! Why, that’s better than being a bird! O little lizard, if that is true, 1 must say good-by. Hey for the wide, gieen swamps, and the loud frog choruses under the light of the moon. Good-by, little friend! Good-by! Tbink of me sometimes when you hear me singing far away!” So the frog went away to join his brothers. It was lonely for the little bzard after the frog was gone, but she com forted herself by thinking how happy he must be. And often, at twilight, she listened to the choruses of the frogs over in the swamp, and wondered if the one who sang so much louder and deeper than all the rest was the little tadpole who had tried so hard to be a bird. “After all,” she said to herself, “there are more ways of singing than one.”— Outlook. MONKEYS. Monkeys are eo much like human beings in the care they give their little ones, that it seems as if they must, in some way, be connected with the human family. A little scene, which my children and I witnessed a short time since in Cen tral Park Menagerie, made us feel this very strongly. We had reluctantly left the monkey house, after spending over an hour watching its fascinating inmates, to visit the other animals, and had hurried back for a last look at the little fellows, before leaving for home. On reaching the monkey-house door, we saw that something unusual was happening, for everybody in the room was crowned about the cage opposite, laughing and calling out, “Uo it, olo fellow!” "Claw it! Claw it!” “Now he’s got it!” “There, he’s lost it!” "I say, isn’t he a tighter!” etc. Suspecting some mischief, we elbowed our way to the railing, and found the cause of all the commotion. A man was playfully poking a newspaper through the bare of the cage, thrusting it forward, and rapidly drawiDg it back, just out of the monkeys’ reach, with such a rattling as to make the poor things almost crazy. Their sole thought seemed to be for the safety of the little two-months-old baby monkey. The mother was seated on the floor of the cage, holding the baby tightly in her arms, and while soothing and caressing it, chattered vociferously at the father, as if inciting him to greater activity in disposing of the dreaded object. Finally, she could endure it no longer. Pushing the father on to the floor, she thruet the baby into his arms, and fran tically strove to clutch the newspaper herself. Her futile attempts and the wild gesticulations of the other monkeys in the cage, who tried to help her, con vulsed the crowd. The keeper, who had stepped out to get the monkeys’ dinner, appeared just at that moment, to our great relief. Rushing up to the man, he seized his arm, exclaiming: "Here, etop that! Don’t you know better than to tease dumb creatures? I could have you arrested for doing it here!" The man muttered something about not meaning "to hurt ’em,” but he got out of the bouse as quickly bb he could, and the crowd of people disappeared also. We delayed going until the excite ment began to subside, and the keeper had succeeded in diverting the monkeys' attention somewhat with the dinner of apples and carrots; but he to told us the next time we visited the monkeys that it took two hours to quiet the little charges, and even then, throughout the afternoon, at every unusual noise, they would rush to the baby, the mother grabbing and holding it until perfectly sure that nothing was wrong. “Why,” the keeper said, in answer to my question, “love the babies?” “These monkey mothers think as much of their babies as you could of yours. And more than that, all the other monkeys love them, too, and would die for them if attacked.”—Priscilla A. Richards, in Church Union. THE COST OE A DINNER. Recently a gentleman who is fond of arithmetic made up his mind that he would find out how much a simple din ner really cost. This gentleman asked how much a simple dinner that he was eating cost, and he was told seventy-tive cents. He contradicted this, and then made tbe following statement about the cjst of the dinner: The pepper, he said, came from 10,000 miles away. It grew on a little bush about eight feet high, which must have had a growth of at least five years. The pepper was picked green; it had to be dried in the sun,and this meant employing women. It took one Bbip and a thousand miles of rail road to bring the pepper to the United States. The tea on the table came from China, and the coffee from South America. The codfish had to be brought from Maine. Men had to be employed to catch tbe ffsb; other men and women were employed in drying, packirg, and boxing it; and it, too, bad to make a long railroad journey. The flour of which the bread was made was from wheat grown in Dakota; some one owned tbe land, and that meant the in vesting of capital; and then he had also to pay wages to workingmen. Tbe wheat had been ground, and the build ing of tbe mill and the plant, or ma chinery, meant more money invested. Th) millers had to be paid; coopers had to be paid for making the barrels; and, of course, the wood of which the barrels were made had to be cut, and sawed, and Bhaped, and this meant the employ ing of more men. Then the flour had to be ehipped o er the railroad and bandied again by cartmen before it came into the house. The salt came from the Indian reservation in the northwestern part of New York state. The canned peaches came from California, and they, too, represented the employment of capital and labor, The spices in tbe c ike came from tbe Spice Islands in tbe Iudian Archipelago. After tbe gentle man had pointed out what the dinner really coat, he asked what on the table could be raised within the limits of the country where they were living. The answer was the corn bread, the butter and buttermilk, and it was decided that the family could not live on this alone. The gentleman estimated that that little dinner represented directly or indirectly the employment of $500,000,000 of capi tal and 5,000,000 of men. It would be quite a lesson in geography for each of the little folks to try to discover where their dinners come from.—Outlook. A BRAVE DEED. It hardly seems possible that a girl of sixteen should save nearly fifty peo from a terrible death, and yet that is what Grace Bussell did. She is often called the Grace Darling of Australia; and, when you have heard her story, I am sure you will say ehe deserves the name. Grace lived with her parents in Western Australia, and her father was one of the first settlers near the Swan river. She used to help in many ways. She would ride twenty miles a day with the cattle, and was as much at home in the saddle as ehe was in the kitchen. Before you can quite understand what a wonderful work this girl did one day, you must remember that twenty years ago the towns in the new settle ments in Australia were very far apart, and people had often to ride for miles to call on their next-door neighbor. Now it happened one day in Decem ber, 1876, that a vessel was wrecked off the coast about eight miles from the Bussells’ home. The steamboat sprang a leak; and, not being far from land, the captain tried to steer her in. But it was of no avail: she ran aground; and there she stayed, with the water gradually flowing into her. The life-boat which wbb on board the steamer was lowered; but it leaked, too, and was so difficult to manage that eight people who had ventured in it were drowned. So the reel of the crew clung to the steamer, and wondered whether they could ever be saved. The surf ran so wildly that no one could dare to swim through it, and there was not a house or a person in eight. But help was near, though they knew it not. The girl of sixteen was riding along with a native servant. She caught sight of the vessel in distress; and, turning her horse’s head to ward the coast, she started at a quick gallop, When ehe reached the sea, she urged her horBe into the angry surf. She rode boldly on till she reached the vessel. With much difficulty she took some of the children in her arms, and put them before her on the saddle. Then, with women and bigger children clinging to her dress, she started for the shore, gave those ehe had rescued to the care of the native, and returned once more to the wreck. So she went backward and forward for four hours, till all were safe on land, the servant having ridden to bring out the last man. Tired and wet sb the girl was, she had still something more to do. Those forty-eight people whom she had res cued must have food and protection of some sort before night came on. So Grace rode home for help; but by the time she had gone the eight mileB she was so worn out herself that shefainted, and it was some time before she could tell what had happened. Her married sister started off at once with food and wraps for the shipwrecked people, and the next day they were all taken to Mr. Bussell's house. Vou will agree with me that Grace veil deserved the medal of the Royal Humane Society which was presented to her on Jan. 8, 1878.—Onward. Qne advantage in taking Ayer’s Sarsa parilla to purify the blood is that you need not infringe upon your hours of la bor nor deny yourself any food that agree with you. In a word, you are not com pelled to starve or loaf, while taking it. These are recommendations worth consid ering. _ Statistics prove that nearly twothirds of the letters carried by the world's postal services are written, sent to, and read by English speaking people. A Thrilling Rescve. A YOUNG LIFE SAVED IN A REMARKABLE MANNER, Florence Sturdivant, of Griudstone Island Saved from an Un timely Death—lie' Dangerous Predicament. From "On The ait. Lawrence,” Clayton, N, V. Among the Thousand Islands is one called Grindstone. It is seven miles long and three wide. The inhabitants of this island are a well-informed class of people who devote their energies to farming and quarrying for a livelihood. In the home of one of these islanders resides Florence J. Sturdivant, the four-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sturdivant. She had a remarkable experience recently FLORENCE J. 8TIKPIVAXT. In an interview with a re|H>rter Mr. Sturdivant said: ‘ Florence was taken sick iu February. 18D6, with scatlet fever ami we immediately culled a physician. After two weeks the fever subsided but Florence was left with a very weak bark Severe pains were constantly ir. the back and stomach. The difficulty seemed to baffle the efforts of the physician. “Finally at the end of four months of treatment, we fouud our patient complete ly prostrated. At this time we called an eminent physician, who agreed with the diagnosis of our physician. He prescribed a course of treatment and we followed it faithfully for three months, but instead of improving, Florence failed. "A brother of my wife, who resided in Canada, but was visiting us. advised us to use Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple, and 1 purchased a box of the pills and began to give them to Florence. This was in October, 1896. After using the pills a short time we could see au im provement. Her strength began to return and her appetite was restored When she had taken one box the pains in her back and stomach ceased and her recovery seemed certain. “We eagerly purchased a second box of pills and watched with delight the change for the better that was being wrought daily. Florence finally became strong enough to walk a little She gained in flesh and strength rapidly. By the time she had used three boxes of the pills she was evidently well. We continued the treatment using another box, lhe fourth, to prevent the possibility of a recurrence of the difficulty. ‘■We cannot praise too highly the value of Dr. Williams’ Pills. 1 am |K>sitive that without their use our child would have b en a confirmed invalid.” (Signed) William H. Stihdivaxt. Subscribed and sworn to before me this sixth day of April, 1897. H. W. Moksk, Notary Public. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple aree sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, 00 cents a box or six boxes for g‘J.50 (they are nev er sold in bulk or by the 100), by addres sing Dr. Williams Medicine (Jo., Sche nectady, N. Y. 4 Story For Girt*. Waiting on Destiny _BY_ Hattie Tyng Griswold, Author of “Apple Blossoms,” and "Home Life of Great Authors.” iamo, 313 pages. Price, 75 cents. 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