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THE ROBIN AND THE BEE. “I suppose you know it's autumn?\ Said the Robin to the Bee— \And the leaves are getting thinner On the most courageous tree. You have noticed that no butterflies Across the garden rove? And that every single chestnut Has been scattered in the grove? It’s a fortnight since the swallows Took their passage o’er the sea— So perhaps you know it's autumn,\ Said the Robin to the Bee. “Old Winter soon gets busy, WJien the feeble sunbeams fade, Ann he turns the flower-beds over With a white and frosty spade. He rolls the gravel pathways Till they ring like iron roads. And the twigs on all the bushes With a sparkling cloak he loads. That’s right! Levs both fly Southward Until Mav once more we see— When we’ll find a warmer welcome,\ Said the Robin to the Bee. —John Lea, ,in St. Nicholas. CONUNDRUMS. W h at are trying times? Visits to the dressm aker. W h at is the best illustrated paper? A bank note. If you put a stone in boiling water what does it become? It becomes wet.— P h iladelphia Record. WHY THE KETTLE SINGS. Do you know why a kettle “sings\ when the waiter is boiling? It’s like this: When the w ater be gins to get hot, little bubbles form at the bottom of the kettle and rise to ward the top until they burst. At first they burst only a little way from the bottom, but as the w ater gets hotter and hotter they rise high er and higher. At last, when the water is boiling, ‘.hey burst right on the surface— lundreds of them one right after an other — and it is the gioisc of their continuous bursting which makes the Bound we call “singing.\— P h iladel phia Record. EARS AND TONGUES. Once upon a time a peasant went to heaven— so runs a story that Jap anese m others and fathers tell to little boys and girls who do not mind their m anners— and the first thing he eaw was a long shelf with something very strange upon it. “W h at is th a t ? ” he asked. “Is it Something to make soup of?” (The Japanese are very fond of soup.) - “No,” was the reply, “those are ears. They belonged to persons who, when they lived on earth, heard what they ought to do in order to be good, but they didn’t pay any attention to lit, so, when they died, their ears came to heaven, but the rest of their bodies could not.” After a while the peasant saw an other shelf with very queer things on it. “W hat is th a t ? ” he asked again. /\Is that someAiing to make soup of?” i “No,” he w a s told, “ these are tongues. Theybqcp belonged to peo ple in the world who told people how to live and how to do good, but they themselves never did as they told others to do, so, when they died, their tongues came to heaven, but the rest of their bodies could not.\— Home Herald. BOY RECOMMENDED HIMSELF. John Brent was trim m ing his hedge, and the snip, snip of his shears was a pleasing sound to his ears. In the rear of him stretched a wide, sm o o thly-kept lawn, in the centre of which stood his residence, a hand some, massive, modest structure which had cost him' not less than $90,000. Ju s t beyond the hedge was a pub lic sidewalk, and two boys stopped opposite to where he was at work, he on the one side of the hedge, they on the other. “ Hello, Fred! That's a very hand some tennis racquet,” one of them said. “You paid about seven dollars for it, didn’t you?” \Only six, Charlie,” was the reply. “ Your old one is in prime order yet. W hat will you take for i t ? ” \I sold it to Willie Robbins for one dollar and a half,\ replied Fred. “Well, now, that was silly,” de clared Charlie. “I’d have given up three dollars for It.” 1 “You are too late,” replied Fred; f l have promised it to W illie.” “Oh, you only promised it to him, ph? And he's simply promised to pay 'o u for it, I suppose? I’ll give you three dollars cash for i t . ” “ I can’t do It, Charlie.\ “ You can if you want to. A dollar and a half more isn’t to be sneezed at.-* “Of course not,\ adm itted Fred, \ard I’d like to have It, only I prom ise 1 the racquet to W illie.\ “ B ut you are not bound to keep your promise. You are at liberty to take more for it. Tell him that I offered you another tim e as much more, and that will settle it.\ “No, C h a rlie,” gravely rpplied the other boy; “that will not settle it. ■nelthefr w ith W illie nor with me. I cannot disappoint him. A bargain is a bargain. The racquet is his, even if I t tisin ’t been delivered.” “Oh, let him have It,” retorted Charlie, angrily. “Fred Fenton, I will not say that yoq are a chump, but I ’ll predict thgt you’ll never mhke a successful business man; you are too punctilious.\ v John Brent overheard the confer- sation, and he stepped to a gap in the hedge to get a look at the boy who had such a high regard for his word. “The lad has a good face, and is made of the right sort of stuff,” was the m illionaire’s mental comment. “He places a proper value upon In tegrity, and he will succeed in busi ness because he is punctilious.” The next day, while he was again working on his hedge, John Brent overheard another conversation. Fred Fenton was again a participant in It. “Fred, let us go over to the circus lot,” the other boy said. “The men are putting up the tents for the after noon perform a n ce.” “No, Joe; I’d rather not,” Fred said. “ B ut w h y ? ” “On account of the profanity. One never hears anything good on such occasions, and I would advise you not to go. My m o ther would not want me to go.” “Did she say ydu shouldn't?” “No, Joe.” “Then let us go. You will not be disobeying her orders.” “But I will be disobeying her wishes,” insisted Fred. “No, I will hot go.\ “That is another good point in that boy,” thought John Brent. “A boy who respects his m o ther's wishes very rarely goes w rong.” Two months later John Brent ad vertised for a clerk In his factory, and there were at least a dozen appli cants. “I can simply takes your names and residences this morning,\ he said. “I ’ll make inquiries about you, and notify the one whom I conclude to select.” Three of the boys gave their names and residences. “W hat is your nam e ? ” he asked, as he glanced at the fourth boy. “Fred Fenton, s ir ,” was the reply. John Brent remembered the name and the boy. He looked at him keen ly, a phased smile crossing his face. “ You can stay,” he said. “I’ve been suited sooner than I expected to be,” he added, looking at the other boys, and dismissing them with a wave of his Ipnd. “Why did you take m e ? ” asked Fred in surprise. “Why were in quiries not necessary In my case? You do not know m e.” “I know you better than you think I do,” said John Brent, with a signifi cant smile. “But I offered you no recommenda tion,\ suggested Fred. “My boy, it wasn’t necessary,” re plied John Brent. “I overheard you recommend yourself; ’’ and as he felt disposed to enlighten Fred, he told him about the two conversations he had heard. This is a true story.— Philadelphia Ledger. \I WISH. A dog saw a cat on top of a high wall, and said: “I wish I could get up there! It m u st be so nice to sit up so high; but I cannot climb.” And he was cross, and would not wag his tail. Then he came to a pond, and saw a fish in it. And he said: “I wish I could live in a pond all \the day! Then I should not be so hot as I am now.” And he would not look at the fish, but shut his eyes, and lay down on the grass. Then he heard the fish say: ‘‘Oh, I wish I could lie down on the fresh, green grass, like that dog. It does look so nice and warm out there! ” The dog sat up, and went back by the road he had come. As he went, he saw the bird, and he heard it say: ”1 wish I could play all day long like that dog, and have a house made for me to live in! 1 have to make a nest, and my wings are so tired! Yet I must fly to and fro, day by day, till it is done.” Then he saw the cat on the wall, and heard her say: “ T here goes that spoiled old dog home to get his plate of meat. I wish I was as well off, and could get m eat like him ! I have had no food all this long day. I wish I was like that dog! ” ,— The Nursery. POOR BESSIE’S EYES. Little Bessie, three years old, look ing around for something to amuse herself with, found a large onion, and then she found a knife. So she sat on the floor with her back against the wall and began to hack away at the onion. Pretty soon she began to wonder what was the m a tter with her eyes. She rubbed them with the hack Of her little fat hand, but that did not seem to help them any, so she kept on hacking at the onion. But, oh, how her eyes did sm art! and how the tears did run! She wondered what she was crying about. Finally, overcome by self pity at this unknown grief, she got up off the floor and trotted into another room, where her father was sitting. She stood before him with a most woe-begone expression, and the w a ter running in a stream down her cheeks, and walled out earnestly, “Poor Bes sie!” “Poor Bessie!” Her father— with a twinkle in hi a eye— reached out his hand and took1 the onion away from her, and sent her to her slater to have her face and to he comforted.— Sab bath jReadlnr WmBiraB ____ _____ f jT Im aglne the greatest figure in the vorld— such a figure as this Rameaes was in his day— with all might, all jlory, all climbing power, all vigor, :enaclty of purpose, and granite Itrength of will concentrated with It, itruck suddenly down, and falling backward In a collapse whose thunder might shake the vitals of the earth, ind you have this prostrate colossus. Even now one seems to hear it fall, :o feel the warm soil trem b ling be- leath one’s feet as one approaches it. A row of statues of enormous size, vlth arm s crossed as If In resignation, glowing In the sun, in color not gold >r amber, but a delicate, desert yel low, watch near It like servants of :he dead. On a slightly lower level -.han theirs It lies, and a little nearer :he Nile. Only the upper half of the figure is left, but its size is really ter rific. This colossus was fifty-seven !eet high. It weighed 800 tons. Eight hundred tons of syenite went :o its making, and across the shoul ders its breadth is, or was, ver twenty-two feet. But one does not think of meas urements as one looks upon It. It Is stupendous. That is obvious and that is enough. Nor does one think of Its finish, of its beautiful, rich color, of any of its details. One thinks of it as a trem endous personage laid low, as the m ightiest of the mighty fallen. One thinks of It as the dead Rameses whose glory still looms over Egypt like a golden cloud th a t will not dis perse. One thinks of it as the soul that commanded, and, lo! there rose un above the sands, at the foot of the hills of Thebes, the exultant Rames- seum.— From Robert HIchens’ “The Spell of Egypt,” In the Century. WISE WORDS. It’s a fool system to decide right after eating dinner w h a t to have for breakfast. An economical thing about being m arried Is you never have any money to waste on yourself. Women start to enjoy a play when they begin to tell about it afterward to those who couldn’t go. A man thinks he has a great mind when he doesn’t slip on the Ice be cause his wife made him wear rub bers. The old-fashioned way of a girl not knowing whether she loved a man or not until her father and mother told her fooled everybody but the girl. The only poetry th a t is read is when it is quoted in love letters. A big family Is a useful thing to the trades people that make their liv ings out of you that way. The way a girl likes you to make love to her Is to tell her and then go home and write it in exactly the same language. One of the mockeries of life is how surprised a girl’s family always seems when a fellow asks for her hand after they have arranged it. E ither people who could live within their Income don’t have i.t, or those who have It can't live within It. It’s perfectly safe to tell the truth to most people because t h a t ’s the way to make them think It isn’t. A woman has got to he jealous about something, if i t ’s only a picture of her husband's grandm o ther when she was a girl. Dhe only genuine joy for a woman is sacrifice. Everybody believes in a square deal unless it's for some one besides him self. A woman would like to be a duchess so she could dress up to her position. When a man wishes he had a lot of money it’s a sign there wouldn’t be any more for him to spend on him self if he had a family. W h at a woman likes about a novel Is where the heroine every third chapter sits down alone and thinks a lot of things nobody can under stand.— From “Reflections of a Bach elor, ” in the New York Press. Curious Bird's Nest. An odd gift has recently been made to a museum in a Connecticut town, the main industry of which is the m anufacture of watches. This gift Is nothing more nor less than a bird’s nest, made entirely of steel. < It appears that In the vicinity lof the workshops there are always to be seen the remains of the old hair springs of watches that have been cast aside. Last summer a watchm aker discovered this curious bird’s nest, which had been built in a tree near the factory by sparrows. It measures ten inches in circumference and is made solely of discarded watch- springs. W hen the birds had fledged their brood the watchm aker secured their unique nest as an interesting proof of the intelligence of birds in adapt ing anything that comes within their ken as suggesting m aterial for nests. — P h iladelphia Record. Too Much, you think th a t Miss Kidder m e ? ” asked “Do was having fun with Chaw rey. “Well, old chap, give me the de tails,’' was Awthur’s response. “You see, I had my bull terrier with me. And I said to her, 'That dog knows as much as I d o / And she said, ‘Don't you think four dollars and a half was too much to pay for himV ”— Cleveland Leader. ng i Tei Entirely Cured by Cutlcnra “ Eczema appeared on my eon's face. We went to a doctor who treated him for three months. Then he was so bad that hie face Vnd head were- nothing but one sore and his ears looked as if they were going to fall off, so we tried another doctor for four months, the baby never getting any better. His hand and legs had big sores on them and the poor little fellow suffered so ter ribly that he could not sleep. After he had suffered six months we tried a set of the Cuticura Remedies and the first treat ment let him sleep and rest well; in one week the sores were gone and in two months he had a clear face. Now be is two years ami has never had eczema again. Mrs. Louis Beck, R. t . D. 3, San Antonio, Tex., Apr. 15, 1907/' _______ V - Decorations F o r Women. There are few decorations for wom en in Europe, the most ancient order coming from, the Austrian throne. It is the decoration of the Star and Cru cifix, and is given to women of high rank. A n o ther is the Luisen, found ed in memory of the beautiful Queen of1 P russia, whom Napoleon insulted. This order is given to all classes of women who commit any great self- sacrifice. S t a t e op O h io , C ity ok T o l e d o , I q L uca s C o u n t y , f FnANK J. C h e n e y makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F .J.C heney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay thesum of one h u n d r e d dol lars for each and every case of catarrh ed hv ihe use of H a l l ’ s C ata r r h C u k e . K rank J . C h e n e y . that cannot be cured Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this- 6th day of December, A. I)., 1886. A. V/. G l e a s o n , ( sea l .) Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cureistnken internally,and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take llall’s Family Pills for constipation. » Stamps F o r the Religious. Belgium has a Sunday postage stamp, Issued for those who do not wish to have their mall delivered on Sunday. All mail bearing the Sunday stamp Is held over by the carriers for delivery Monday. Useless Worry. It frequently happens th a t a wom an worries a great deal over the ques tion qf calling on another woman who doesn’t care In the least w h ether she calls or not. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teet h mg, softens t he gums, red uces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic,25c a bottle In the seventeenth century absence from church was a punishable offense in Eng- Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists. England loses 60,000 persons every year by emigration. A College Professor Has Had Several and Likes Them. A bat In a woman's bedroom can cause more excitement than can one lone burglar or even a dozen mice. All of which 1 b sheer foolishness, according to a writer— a male writer, it is unnecessary to say— in the Tech nical World. If she would but give the bat a chance he could prove to her entire satisfaction that he is an intelligent and amiable creature and not unworthy of a permanent place in the household. Yes, the detested bat makes a most agreeable household pet. He Is a m o st affectionate creature and will attach himself to a person as does a kindly and Intelligent dog. A college professor says: “ Whe^, I was a student at the uni versity I had two bats, which came and went freely of their own accord. In the evening they were wont to rush through the window into the neigh boring garden, hunt insects, and when their hunger was appeased they would return to my room. “ They slept on a bookshelf, where they suspended themselves from a dictionary. At the present tim e I possess a bat th a t shows a touching attachm e n t to my person and follows me about through the rooms of my house if I call It.” This advocate of bats as pets fur th e r states that when he talks pleas antly to it his present favorite raises and lowers its ears, much after the m anner of a horse, blinks its eyes in a contented fashion, licks its noz zle with Its tongue, and In general disports Itself In a manner that Indi cates it is pleased and contented. W h en harshly spoken to it lays back its ears, shrinks away and tries to es cape by climbing up the curtain. “When I sit by lamplight in the m orning working at my desk I can hardly get rid of it,” he writes. “It comes and goes, rambling about the desk or climbing up my legs or else It sits on the curtain and endeavors by violent shakings of the head and shrill tw itterings to excite my atten tion and to obtain worms—Its usual food— thereby. Its appetite Is Indeed som ething uncanny. Thirty fat worms are readily taken at one m eal.” Woman’s Limitations. Any woman thinks she's capable of reform ing a man, but when it comes to reforming herself she employs a dressm a k er.— St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. A Definition, The difference between a liar and a hum o rist is th a t one distorts a statem e n t and the other states a dis tortion. UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAHOUNA PRAISES PE-RU-NA. Ex-Senator M. C. Butler, Di/aprpsia is Ofttn Caused by Catarrh o] tie Stomach—Peruna Jteheves Catarrh of the Stomach and is Thvrejorc a Remedy for Dyspepsia. - - -* Hon. M. C. Butler, U. S. Senator; from South Carolina for two terms,'i” ' a letter from Washington, D. (J.. write lo the Peruna Medicine Co., ns follows: “1 can recom m end Peruna for* dyspepsia and s to -n ach trouble. l \ hare been using you r m edicine f o r ' a short period an d J feel veryX much relieved. It Is Indeed a t w o n d e rfu l m e d icine, besides a X good ton ic.” T ATARRH of the stomach is the cor- X^rect name for most cases of dyspepsia. Onlv an internal catarrh remedy, such as henma. is available. Peruna Tablets can now be procured. Ask your Druggist for a Free Pe ru na Almanac for 1900. H„ !!rp Dr. MJKTtrs freparatloa gk* f * d j 1 tio Ssiiiiidiirtl K o inody* W V t v I V I C . INI AT DRUUUIBTB. Send lor book, “ llollel lor Women.” FRENCH DRUG CO., 30 W. 32d St., N. Y. City. If a filleted with weak eyes, use Thompson’s EyeWater Color Bound to Come. It won't be long before we’ll be reading the obituary of the fool who rocked the airship. — D e troit Free Press. PROVED BY TIME. CHICKENS EARN MONEY! L Y E r-SS No Fear of Any Further Trouble. David Price, Corydon, la., says: *1 was in the last stage of kidney .ro u b l e — lam e , weak, run down to a mere skeletoA. My back was so bad I could hardly walk and the kidney se cretions much dis ordered. A week after 1 began using Doan’s Kidney Pills I could walk with out a cane, and as 1 continued my health gradually returned. I was so grateful 1 made a public statem e n t of my case, and now seven years have passed, 1 am still perfectly w e ll.” Sold by all dealers. 60c. a box. Foster-M ilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Troubles of To-day. * V In these days of scientific marvels when a man sees a m ysterious mon ster in the air he has to guess wheth er It is a flying machine or a woman’s hat.— New York Press. Whether you raise Chickens for fun or profit, you want to do it intelligently and get the best results. The way to do this is to profit by the experience of others. We offer a book telling all you need to know on the sub ject—a book written by a man who made his living jfbr 25 years in raising Poultry. [ ■ and in that time necessarily had to experiment and spend MA ■ much money to learn the best way to conduct the business— w for the small sum of 25 (.'UNTS in postage stamps. It tells you how to Detect and Cure Disease, how to Feed for Eggs, and also fof Market, which Fowls to Save for Breeding Purposes, and indeed about evervthing vou must know on the subject to make a success. SENT POSTPAID ON ’RECEIPT OF 25 CENTS IN STAMPS. Book Publishing House, 134 Leonard S t,9 M Y. City. SAFETY RAZOR A T L O W P R I C E . SUPERIOR TO BEST SOLD AT ANY PRICE. ESHCFil Benk sent by mail 29 REA CO.. DEPT. B. 4 F R E E . MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. An Excellent Remedy K U Hale's cot. Honey Of Horehound and Tar When it Aches again T r y P i k e ' s Too l l i a c k e P r o p s The small price Is made possible by the great demand for this Razor. The small profit on each aggregating as large a sum as If we sold fewer a t a g r eater price. The benefit is th e consum er's, T h e B la d e is o f th e f i n e s t s t e e l , s c i e n tific a l l y m a d e a n d te m p e r e d b y a s e c r e t p r o c e s s - - a n d th e blade, o f pourse, Is the im por tant part of any Razor. 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A N IM I T A T I O N T A K E S F O R IT S P A T T E R N T H E R E A L A R T I C L E There eras aever an Imitation made ol an imitation. 1ml- tatore always counterfeit the genuine article. The genuine la ' what you ask for, because genuine articles are the advertised ones. Imitations are not advertised, but depend for their business on the ability of the dealer to sell yon something claimed to be “Juet as good” when you ask for the genuine, became he makes more prolt on the Imitation. Why accept Imitations when you can get the gen uine by Insisting? - REFUSE IM ITATIO N S --onA jr a ,00 An advocate of the vegetarian diet has stated that the nut trees of the world are capable of supplying foot! all the year to the population of the globe. N.Y.— 50 j'4 ■. j
