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The Chandler News.
VOLUME 3.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, NOVEMRER 17,1893
NUMRER 8
but there ske had rose gardens, stables, ■ I V I> \ D I sJ A rP NKtH'!1
servanU, feSnor and respect. Hhs * " 1
AN OtD SONG RESUNC7
Down by the salley gardous m.v love and I did
meet
Bhe passed the sal ley gardens with little snow-
white feet
She bid me take love easy us the leaves grow
00 the tree.
But Ifbeln/ young and foolish with he\ would
uot a; ret*
In a Held l f the river my love and 1 did stand.
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow
white hand
She bid mo take lift* easy as the grass xrows
on the weirs
Hut I was youiw and foolish, and uow am full
of tears
Chicago'* .ffeue Club.
When an Eastern woman, for whom
no Jane club exists, sits down to write
alnMt the one out West in Chicago she
doesn't know where to begin, says a
.New York Sun writer. It is such a
fairy-like tale of impossible good
things made possible. The club was
named after Miss .lane Adams, the
well-known and well-beloved founder
of Hull house. She obtained the
house, a big double one on a quiet,
shady street, and she got it at a very
low rent Then, as godmother of the
project, she furnished it from base-
ment to garret
There are about forty lucky young
women who belong to the club. A
candidate must be backed up by the
written guarantee <>f two members,
and, this affidavit having been ac-
cepted, she must receive a two-thirds
.vote of all the members of the club.
Affairs are in the hands of a president,
vice president, recording secretary,
treasurer, librarian and last and most
important, a steward The president
and the steward form the house com-
mittee. A general meeting of mem-
bers is held on the second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, when all
"cranks" and "kickers" may present
their grievances This affords a safety
valve for the institution, but it is get-
ting rusty for lack >f exercise. Tues-
day is pay day, when every member is
required to pav a weekly due of three-
dollars.
Hut w,ould you know what these
girls receive in return for those $3?
In the first place each has a large and
well furnished house for her home.
There are two reception rooms, a
library stocked with good books, a
music room, three large dining rooms,
a kitchen, four bath rooms, and ten
bedrooms. There is a large laundry
in the basement. The club employs a
cook for 4r 7 a week, and two house-
maids for 8" a week each. At the
table are served the best of roasts,
the juciest steaks * and chops the
choicest fruits and puddings and
cakes, and the lightest biscniis The
steward does the marketing and .s a
very important personage.
The members must be unmarried, rw
else widows without small children
The age limit is from is to 4." years.
There is one person living in the club
house who is more than 45. This is
the (30-year-old mother of one of the
girls, and she is chaperon and coddler
for the entire household. This is not
a club of old maids, sour or otherwise.
'ITie present members are all under *
years of age and are a well-dressed
and jolly company. They are sten-
ographers,typewriters,milliners, book-
binders. dressmakers, shoemakers, and
so on.
Tlje club members entertain as if
thev were at home, which, in reality,
they are. Small dances, informal
femsicalcs and occasional receptions do
lot disturb but ertliven the even tenor
Of the .lane club's way. Naturally
enough, the next thing to record is
that other Chicago young women,
before whose t.nvious eyes the .lane
club has sprung up and ilourished,
ire about to organize more clubs of
the same pattern.
J1*"1 I.aUy Hosier StnuliO| e.
Iii the experience of Lady Hester
Stanhope, who flourished during the
latter part of the last century, and
theearly part of this, it was not cus-
tomary in those days for fate to smile
upon eccentric young women. She
began life under fairly cheerful aus-
pices as the daughter of the earl of
Stanhope, the grauddaughter of the
earl of Chatham and the niece of Wil-
liam I'itt Hut she did rtot have'a
cheerful career notwithstanding.
When she was only 10 years old she
was the head of her uncle's house-
hold and his adopted daughter. Sh 1
was a statuesqueU beautiful young
woman, atfid she was perfectly well
aware of the fact. She was wonder-
ful in conversation, witty, clever at
repartee and quick at mimicry. She
was also courageous keen and proud.
When her uncle died he left her
£1.500 a year, but Lady Hester did not
add to her numerous good qualities
the one of financial ability, sue tirst
had a salon in London, and when she
was swamped in debt she retired to
Wales ami took up the expensive lux-
ury of philanthropy. Not finding
this either economical or pleasant, she
resolved to go abroad, and being 54
years old she went u attended, save
by a companion and physician.
She wandered ubout until she
reached Mt Lebanon, and there she
pitched her tent permanently. She was
too poor to live, luxuriously at home,
tiht |
adopted Turkish dress, and wore yel-
low stockings, scarlet trousers and
two long cloaks—one cream colored
and one crimson, ller headgear was
remarkable. It consisted of a coarse,
cream-colored Barbary shawl, worn
as a turban, a red silk handkerchief,
which tied under her phiiu and a fea.
She was more or less of a power
here. The surrounding sheiks treat-
ed her with deference: Abdallah
Pasha was under her influence, and
Lord Falmerston made use of her in
the difficult complications then ex-
isting in the East. Hut her pecuniary
difficulties increased; her companion
died, her servants plundered her. She
eventually lost even he* pension, and
by and by her troubles preyed upon
I her mjud to such a degree that it be-
came unse tied Site then walled her-
self in her residence and remained
there alone without a single European
to protect her, while her physician
went to England to attend to her af-
fairs. And there she died alone, per-
haps hurried out of existence by being
smothered by her servants.
The l'eriotl of Convaleneence.
Have you an invalid within your
gates? We do not mean the chronic
sufferer who must perforce bear with
patience the time of wating until the
fetters are unbound and the soul set
free, no more to be trammeled by a
weary, aching body. We mean the
convalescent, rather the cross in-
dividual, who is on the road to recov-
erv and yet who needs the most care-
ful treatment lest set-backs may come
and all the work of nursing and worry
: to be gone over again.
To begin with, be patient; watch
your tongue and your temper as care-
fully as though they were wild beasts
ready at any moment to spring upon
their pr£y. It is hard, we know, to
keep gentle and unruffled when fault
is found with everything we do,
though we are trying our very best to
please; yet if we can conquer we will
be rewarded bj' a consciousness of
right, and will know that it is only
the whimsicality of illness that is hard
to satisfy rather than the real feeling
and judgment of our charges.
Don't worry the sic!? on>'s in regard
to what they wish to eat Fix up
something nice and tasty, serve it
daintily and reap the reward that a
capricious appetite will grant—the
reward of seeing the eatables disap-
pear merely because they were a
pleasant and unexpected surprise.
Next, do uot allow every friendly
neighbor to run in and sit for hours
until the flushed cheeks and too bril-
liant eyes of the patient tell the story
of an overdose of company.
Do not let your charge be too eager
for recovery—far better a week or
more of idleness than a precipitate
activity that throws the invalid back
once more upon the sick bed. He
cheerful always Heighten up the
j room with gay flowers whose odor is
not too heavy, but never permit them
1 to remain in the sick room over night.
I Keep your patient tidy and the bed
I clothes smooth and coo! as possible.
Speak in low tones, walk with soft
! tread, and be ever watchful against
I the slightest indiscretion. To moth-
| ers this sort of nursing cotne's natur-
I ally, but there are some who must be
told, as they err through lack of that
gentle judgment that is the secret of
sick-room victories.
Iuceaotnt T;«lker*.
T(W be a good talker does not mean
that you must talk all the time. The
art of conversation lies quite as much
in knovvi ig how to listen and to draw-
out by adroit questioning as to babble
incessantly. There are some peop'.e
who talk all the time, but never say
I anything after all that is worth re-
| membering. Such characters are re-
j sponsible largely for the supposition
' t hat one can be talked to death, and
' as sorry as we are to say so the fact
remains that women are generally of
i that order, like the brook going on
| forever, and driving their listeners
mad with their incessant cackle that
' means nothing.
Every one of us knows such anindi-
1 viduaL She is generally plain of face
! and feature and would be a real good
j soul if at some period of her existence
sh.- had not been told that she was
! bright. To live up to this reputation
j she thinks it necessary to gabble, gab-
ble, gabble, telling you always in her
1 coy way that her husband looked for
brains, not beauty, when he chose her.
Poor man—if appearances count for
anything he evideitly wishes that he
I had married a woman dumb in more
senses than one, though he would
! never have the courage to air any con-
j victions of that sort.
There is no conversation where such
: creatures abound. From beginning to
end it i- a monologue of no possible
Interest to anyone but fhe owner of
I the voice that goes on forever. We
are a selfish lo^ and franklv confess
that it isn't a bit of fun to do all the
listening when we are just dying to
get our oar in and do a little showing
off ourselves.
Waislilng Flaunelt. *
Flannels should always be washed
by themselves in .a suds prepared for
them; on no account to be rubbed on
the board, unless very dirty. The
suds should be pleasantly warm to
the hands, not too hot, and no hot or
cold water bo added while the flannels
are in the tub. They should be rinsed
in clean water of the same tempera-
ture as the washing suds, and as many
waters used as may be necessary to
take all the si>ap out, as the llanuels
will never be blued. They should be
pulled in shape before hanging, under-
shirts being hung from the shoulders.
They should never be hung out of
doors in freezing weather, but quickly
dried before the tire, or, better, over
the register, and pressed as soon as
dry enough.
The Women's library at Chicags
contains 7,000 vo nines, representing
twenty-three countries aud sixtseS
language*.
PLASH LIGHT QLIMPSESOF THE
GAY CAPITAL.
the San tiaei Uonu Sound of
Revelry Uues L'p and Splendor aud
Shame Itelgn Supreme Till Day-
break.
IParis Correspondence !
ARIS IS GAYEST
at night
Between 2 and 4
in the afternoon in
the winter season,
when the town is
full and the busi-
ness of amusement
is booming, a
species of calm
falls upon the
boulevards - even
upon that brightest
section • between
the Gymnase thea er and Durand's
cafe opposite the Madeleine.
But at 4 business begins Weary
looking actors stroll to the small
tables outside the cafes, and sit down
to smoke cigarettes and drink ver-
muth. French actors do not drink
absinthe at 4, or 5, or «' o'clock in the
afternoon, except in American novels
about Parisian life. After the play,
perhaps, not before.
Five o'clock, and from the sacred
hill on which Saint Denis losthishead
—the Mount of the Martyr—an alert
little company of fashionable lorettes,
carefully dressed, descends with
dainty feet. Blondes and brunettes
scatter themselves along the cafes, for
a mile or two, and view the deuse
throng of promenaders, sometimes
twelve abreast, which sweeps upward
to the retrion of popular restaurants
and theaters.
There is a faint odor of burned wood,
and of flowers, and of coffee and bran-
dy, on the air. it is rarely so cold
that people cannot sit out of doors
with comfort, and the lorettes air their
fur c'oaks and look virtuously happy
while they are plotting to get invited
to dinner bv tiustave or Claude or
Adolphe, and are raging as they see
the "legitimes" go by.
A quarter past 5; hour of the liter-
ary inei, dramatists, composers, song
ON THF. PARIS BOULEVARDS AT 5 P. M.
writers, political pamphleteers, who
number many thousands in Paris, and
each of whom thinks it nece^s iry to
show himself on the boulevards at
least once a Hay. They rush along,
smartly dressed, silk hatted, 11am-
boyant-cravatted, nice as to shoe-
leath r. and till the Cafe Napoiatain,
the American, and the great group of
cafes around the Passage .loulTroy
This is a sober crowd, but it makes
infinite cackle. Gestures "saw the air;
discussions abound: men combat furi-
ously for their ideas, some of the
writers shout and bang the tables.
That is nothing* in Paris. Over one
gooseberry syrup a political writer
will deliver an oration. In an hour
and a half th s turbulent company will
have dispersed to a hundred restaurants
to dinner. The swells, like Aurelien
Scholl. will go to Higon's, the Cafe
Iiiche, or the Maison i)oree: the little
radicals and the socialists will dine at
a two franc ga gotte. and will order
extra bottles of wine at a franc each.
Half an hour over the absinthe—for
at the I'aix they do drink it "ferme"—
then dinner in one of the richly car-
peted saloons, with discreet waiter^ in
evening dress aud chasseurs in livery
to atieud to one's wants.
Outside, on what is called the "ter-
rasse'' of the cafe, sit elderly gentle-
men, who belong to the political party
which has been out since i870 The
I'aix was once the headquarters of im-
perialism For many years after the
tli© thief, edging nis way uncomforta-
bly Uftder the strong light.
Eight o'clock, a vast current of car-
riages, carrying gaily attired people
everywhere in a hurry. All laugh and
chatter merrily; the air is tilled with
•r'garette smoke: the pretty women's
faces gleam under tne eiectric lights
as the carriages dash past.
if it is in carnival time, the maskers
now begin to appear, in carriages aud
on foot, m
From 9 to 10 the boulevards fall into
a little dullness The throng of pe-
destrians thins out: the young ladief
in the tobacco shops have less to dr
the ouriosi'y shop* in tne arcades a
not so crowded. People are atf t
theater, or at home, or at **\ rk in
newspaper offices or the libr
Toward 10 the lorettes return,
once more survey the cafes, but
time more cautiously, for the po
are often more strict with them th.
with their loru ami lost sisters, wl
promenade the stre ts until 2 or a
o clock in the morning.
From 11 p. in. until I a m. the sou-
peuses, the ladies who sup in the gor-
geous restaurants, are abroad. They
come in cariiages; they awaken to
laughter aud wit just as sober Paris
thinks of going to bed.
£
ft
mgm
SETTLING i UK BIBL AFTER THS BALL
ON THE BOULK\ AKDN.
present republic was started, the vet-
erans of ths Napoleonic political guard
talked very loudly there every evening.
But now they talk no longer, for
none of the younger generation will
listen to them.
Seven o'clock; the furtive shades of
misery appear, the blue bloused man
with haggard face, who picks up cigar
ends, and even enters the terrasse for
that purpose; the husky voiced singer,
who intones a dubious ballad; the
blind man. with hia pretty daughter;
ths peddler of objectionable pictures.
NIGHT ON THE BOULEVARDS, I'AItlS.
The theaters do not close until 12
Then they send forth many thousands
of people, most of whom descend the
boulevards slowly, a compact mass of
handsomely dressed, vivacious folk.
Many of the fashionable shops ure only
just closing as this company goes bv.
Shoppers on the boulevard in the
evening find plenty to amuse them.
Hundreds of brilliantly lighted win-
dows, filled with objects of art, with
statues, paintings, and the dainty
bric-a-brac for which Paris is famous,
seduce the attention and tempt the
buyer.
Homeward march the show troops
from the theaters: footmen bawl the
numbers of their carriages under the
portal of the opera: dark figures spring
up from under the trees, and ask for
"un petit sou.M'sieu. pour 1 amour de
Dieu!"
Ancleut Wonders in i he Ka«t.
Nineveh was fourteen miles long
and eight miles wide, the whole city
surrounded by a wall 100 feet high, sc
thick as to furnish ample room for
three chariots to be driven abreast
around the top Babylon was fifty
miles within the walls which were
seventy-five feet thick and of the same
height as those of Nineveh. This
monster wall had twelve openings, or
gates, which were closed by enormous
brass shutters every evening at sun
down. The temple of Diana, at
Ephesus, which was about an even
hundred years in building, was 450
feet to the support of the roof. The
largest of the pyramids was originally
4S1 feet high and 853 on the sides, the
base covering eleven acres. The stones,
which are in :J08 layers, average sixty
feet in length. One account says that
350,000 men worked for twenty years
in fashioning the Titanic pile. The
famous "Labyrinth of Egypt" con-
tained 300 rooms or chambers and
twelve halls. Thebes, Egypt, at the
'present time presents ruins twenty-
seven mill's in circumference. The re-
mains of many of the buildings, such
as columns, arches, etc., are of such
gigantic size that no known modern
machinery wouid be equal to the task
of taking them down, to say nothing
of putting them in their present posi
tions.
Knglnnd'tt ltlggent F.ngine.
The largest locomotive ever built in
England an honor* belonging to the
Messrs. Hawthorn of Newcastle
runs upon a four-wheeled leading
bogie and two pairs of independent
driving wheels of seven feet six inches
diameter, and there are four high
pressure cy'inte.s. Two cylinders
placed inside under the smokebox are
seventeen by twenty-two inches and
actuate the first pair of driving
wheels: two outside cylinders aro
placed behind the bogie wheels they
are sixteen and one-half by twenty-
four inches, and work the second or
trailing pair of driving wheels; the
total tractive force exerted by tin-
four cylinders upon the iour driving
wheels is, therefore, 143 pounds for
each pound of efVected pressure. Tfye
boiler works at a pressure of 175
pounds, but is constructed to carry
200 pounds if necessary, and itisof
oval section, in order that it may be
placed betwee the tops of the driv-
ing wheels The number of tubes is
Ik'.i. with a diameter of two and three-
eighths inches, sixteen feet long.and a
total heating surface of ,0's square
feet. {The area of firegrate is twenty*
eight square fr et, 'h<- weight of en-
gine in working order sixty tons, and
the tender when loaded tons.
Afrnld of Conviction.
First Boodler -I want to engage the
services of a lawyer Whom do you
recommend '
second Boodler—You had better re-
tain Lawyer Bluff.'
"Is he a good lawyer?''
"He is indeed. He is a powerful
speaker. He is so thoroughly in earn-
est that in addressing a jury his words
carry conviction."
"Then he will not do. I've been in-
dicted, and I don't want a lawyer
whose words carry convictiou witb
'a is sn s** uittjJ l'" i/Ur
FIDGETY NAN.
A queer old wife was Fid rety Nun,
A funny old wife was she,
A wearisome wile for a sailor uian,
As the saiior man told me
He never could m ike her understand
When a storm ra^cd nerceiy on the land.
It uituht not rage at sea
She hun# In a dandling. dangerous place,
Where the wind could sweep It free, ,
The old brass kettle had served her rat e
Full well for a century.
And whenever a terrible storm took place,
She hurriedly climbed the tree.
"I thank the powers that i.ive me grace,
To swing In this kettle," said she
"For how could I sta.v in a safer place
And my man in peril be?"
Hut the funniest fact of this curious case,
As the sailor man told mo.
Was when she swumi in that dantrerousi place
it was deadly calm at sea. St. Nicholas
Till* May (aive You u Hint.
A lady who for many years has
taught music with marked success,
made a visit to the world's fair. Upon
her return she went immediately to
see a friend, a woman of kjiown cul-
ture and literary attainments.
"I have come to confess ignorance
of the deepest dye, and to ask for in-
struction," said she. "I have just re-
turned from the world's fair, and the
th.gthat impressed me most while
there was my ow n ignorance of what
1 saw. An ignoraucc so dense that it
destroyed half the pleasure of my
visit.
"1 feel that I am culpable, for when
1 was at school I was as bright as the
ordinary girl, and 1 suppose I took the
ordinary education of the schoolgirl
of«|hat day. Hut 1 allowed myself to
forget it all for want of study. Above
everything else, I had a talent for
music. As soon as 1 left school I be-
gan studying and teaching music, and
from that day to tills I have done
nothing else. My lifo uarrowed down
to that."
"You have certainly been successful
in it," interrupted her friend.
"That's true, but it was not neces-
sary that while I did that 1 should
have left everything else undone.
There are sometimes things that it is
every^body's duty to know, as I have
found to my sorrow. Half 1 saw at
the fair I failed to understand. Of
geography aud peoples I knew little;
of history less; of science and the arts,
absolutely nothing. And there they
were, all represented before me, but
thyi;- meaning was a sealed book.
"There is nothing in the world that
I admire more than a beautiful pict-
ure or a fine piece of statuary. The
Art building was full of both, but
from my ignorance of the subjects
treated, more than half their excel-
lence was lost There is mythologyf
for instance; T do not know one thing
about it, and nearly every picture or
statue told some myth. Hut 1 did not
know the story. One day, in my out-
spoken way, I said so.
" 'Then,' said some one to me,
these exhibits are like the waters of
Tantalus to your lips.*
"I did not know what the waters
of Taut a! us were, although the word
tantalized flashed instantly, upon me,
and I knew I was tantalized. So, ray
friend, I have come back, determined,
even at my uge, to trv to right the
wrong 1 have so blindly done myself,
and 1 appeal to you for assistance. .
"Let me begin with mythology, for
in that 1 am most interested just u -vv.
Tell me some brief, interesting work
"ii mythology from which I can get
information rapidly. I haven't time
t<> go deeply into all these things, or
►to make up all I have lost but I am
resolved to inform myself to the point
that is necessary to understand what
I have already seen and to enjoy what
the future may hold for me beyoud
my music."
\\ hen the impetuous speech was fin-
ished she was advised to get Hulfinc-h's
Age of Fable, or Dwight's or Keight-
ley s Mythology, and promises of fu-
ture help being given she went on her
way rejoicing.
An unexpected result followed this
visit i he lady that had been con-
sulted had long and earnestly sought
to use the information she felt con-
scious of possessing as an aid to her
income. She lacked the experience in
teaching that is considered requisite
to obtaining a position in a school.
Hut now she gathered around her a
class of ladies who had never had, or
had neglected, opportunities to ac-
quaint themselves with popular sub-
je ts of interest While the remuner-
ation she receives is enriching her own
exchequer she, in turn, in the most
attractive manner possible, is trying
to f^nrich,the capabilities of her stu-
dents for becoming entertaining to
husbands, children and friends at
home and abroad. ♦
Does not this suggest to "our boys
and girls" that it is well to remember
the information gathered in youth,
and not to let it be crowded out by a
devotion to some particular vocation?
Thus they will be enabled to enjoy to.
the full the many opportunities for
pleasure and improvement that may
come to them. — Philadelphia Times.
Queer TIiIuks About t'roga.
Frogs are mainly juice, says St.
Nicholas. If they try to make more
than a short journey from moisture,
in a drought they will perish for want
of water, and then their bodies will
dry sway The frog's bones are
soft that he scarcely leaves any skele-
ton.
A frog meets with remarkable
changes during his natural life Ho
begins as ati egg and hatches out its a
tish. That is, u tadpole or polliwog,
at tirst has gills,breathing water alone.
In his early days, however, the tail
pole soon looses the outside part of
his gills and breathes air, so that
he has to come to the surface of the
water every few minutes like a por-
poise, to get a fresh gulp of breath.
During thesfirst part of his career
he swims by sculling with ills long
tail. After awhile his legs begin to
grow out, his tail becomes shorter and
shorter, aud when he is a complete
frog he has no tail at all, but swims
by kicking. When half ? rog and half
tadpole he still has a deaV. oie
tail, and in addition big hina legs and
mere sprouts of fore legs; so that he
is a very funny looking fellow A
bull-frog tadpole at this stage seems
"ueither of heaven nor of earth."
Again, the tadpole eats water-plants,
but when ho becomes a frog he feeds
on animal life. Tadpoles eat the
green moss or •'scum" that we so
often see on logs and plants in a stag-
nant pool, and they show a good ap-
petite for soft decaying water-growths.
The fouler the pool the hapoier the
tadpojea As they are numerous, and
thus devour a great amount of matter
that would make it very unhealthy to
live near a stagnant pool, they are
really useful creatures
In captivity they will generally eal
meat., whether good or bad, as well as
bread ami bran dough, and, as a spe-
cial relish, will sometime* lunch ou
one another's tails.
The common frog gets his tlual
shape in the tirst season, but the bull-
frog goes under the mud for the win-
ter while still a tadpole, and it takes
at least another summer and some-
times more before he has full right to
be called a frog. He is some four
years from the egg in gettiug full
growth, and does not become old foi
about ten years.
Three Mht^ken.
There have been many harmless
mistakes made that contributed much
to the amusementof mankind. Among
them is one told of a certain clergy-
man, who left a notice in,his pulpit to
be read by the preacher who ex-
changed with him. The clergyman
neglected to denote carefully a pri-
vate postscript and the congregation
were astonished to hear the stranger
wind up by saying:
"You will please come to dine with
me at the parsonage after service."
Another umusing slory is told of a
minister. The reverend gentleman
w as inclined to be absent-minded, and,
while walking one day, encountered a
young lady whose face seemed famil-
iar to him. Taking her to be one of
his parishioners' daughters, and not
wishing to pass her without notice,
he stepped forward and, cordially
shaking her hand, entered into con-
versation After comparing notes.
{ about the weather, ho had at last to
confess: *,
I "Well, I know your face quite well,
i but I cannot rccall where I have seen.
! you before." 9
"Oh, please sir, I'm your new par-
lormaid!" was the reply.
A third story, copied from a LondOif
I periodical, is based upon a small boy's
: mistake in school, but, as a matter of
I fact, it is more likely that the incident
i is based upon the fertile fancy of the
writer, because it is almost too good
I to be true. This story is of how Mr.
Whackem, a fiery schoolmaster, came
to lose a scholar one day. The class
was parsing a sentence.
"What is the imperative of the
verb 'to go?' asked Whackem of
Johnny Fizzletop
"I don't know."
"(Jo!" shouted Whackem.
" Thank you, sir," replied Johnny,
and ho was two streets otf before the
teacher could catch his breath.
A I'lueky I.itlle K^rinor'a IS Of.
.1 i in line liolvin, ti 10-year-old lad,
living in Western Canada, was leading
■i horse to put into a hayrake when
the animal became unmanageable,
knocked him down and "broke his leg
in two places between the hip and
the kne *. The accident happened out
on the prairie, many miles from home
Notwithstanding the agony he must
have endured, the boy crawled a con-
siderable distance to where he hoped
to tiud some of the haymakers, but
j they had gone farther away.
He lay down exhausted, hoping for
some one to come How many hours
he lay there is not, known. Night was
I at length coining on, and he feared he
should die if l« t-.umch longer without
help.
The horse meanwhile was feeding
not far off. Jiinmie's un tasted
luncheon was still ,iji his pocket. Hs
called the horse, gave him the biscuit
and so caught him. The little sufferer
then led the animal to* a rock a few
yards distant, dngging himself slowly
and painfully along, as before He
#cre;>t upon the rock and from there
managed to mount the horse.
Once on the horsf s back he rode two
miles to the neaft t house or tent,
where he found the haymakers, who
made him as comfortable as they
could and then took him home to his
parents
An effort to set the broken limb,
made by a neighbor, proved unsuccess-
ful, and after nine days of misery tho
little fellow was taken to the hosnital
at Winnipeg, where the writer of this
account.saw him and heard his story.
"He's a brave little man," said the
surgeon; "he never complains, and we
shall g v. n a pretty good leg again, •
I think."- -. )uth's Companion.
Murli Coimolatiou.
Mother—Aren't you sorry for the
little bov with Ins arm in a sling?
Bobby—V-y-yes, but just think whsts
pile of candy and such sHitf he must
get!
. Elephants sometimes live to be 30t)
years old.
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