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Boys and Girl
THE ORIGIN OF THE CAMEL.
A tomcat arching up his back
To meet an angry; dog's attack,
Discovered, when the fight was over
And he'd annihilated Rover;
That all the muscles of his back
New had a most ppeculiar lack
Of suppleness; they stayed the way
They were throughout the angry fray.
Arched -up his back remained, alas!
And never did that stiffness pass,
He grew in size and looked so queer
That people, seeing: him, would jeer.
Ile ran away to foreign lands,
And once he reached Sahara's sands,
Decided that this quiet place,
Where dwelt a very peaceful race
Who didn't mind his shape at all
Was good enough his home to call.
This happened many years ago,
.And I am sure by now you know
He was the earths first camel, . Now
Will some kind reader tell me how
Giraffes their lengthy necks acquired
(Much shorter ones they all desired);
.Aad how the leopard got his spots,
That look like giant polka dots?
THE CHAMELEON ENEMY.
The natives of equatorial Africa
cannot understand the chameleon, and
therefore they are afraid of him. If
a black man sees a white man letting
the little animal take liberties with
him, running up his arm and around
his neck, he can't help giving a warn
ing: "0 white man, you will surely
die: The chameleon is a terrible
enemy"
It is that color trick of the chain
eleon's that makes him so terrifying,
They can't believe that anything
which changescolor so easily as the
chameleon can, has anything less than
a devil or some evil spirit back of it.
The black men watch the suspected.
one pass from a patch of grass to the
yeliow sand, and then on to a piece
of red sandstone, changing color as it
proceeds, and they cannot understand
that the little fellow is merely handing
them a sample of the only reliable
means of defence—matching himself
so perfectly to the object he is stand-
ing on that his enemies cannot find
him,
To the natives this changeableness
is a symbol of deceit and treachery,
the very things the Devil uses to put
across his schemes. He could never
in the world get by with some of his
plans if he appeared before his victim
just as he is. He therefore escapes
detection by taking on the color of
our thoughts, our feelings, and even
masquerading as one of our virtues.
—Robert H. Milligan.
OLIVER'S OVERCOAT
AND SWEATER
By Hilda Richmond.
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"You sea, Florence," said Mrs
Banks, "we divided the society into as
many parts as there were members o
the family, and you are the chairman
of one committee in your mother's
place. No, I positively can't come in
and sit down. We pack tare box three
weeka from to -day; so have your
things ready by that time"
"But I don't understand," said the
young girl. "Please comae In and tell
ms"
"Well, just a minute," Airs.' Banks
seated herself on a chair and opened
the paper in her hand. "You have
Oliver; he's seventeen and needs a
sweater and an ovrcoat. His dimen-
sions are given Lere. Oliver wants to
go to college, and he is pretty well
fitted out with things his mother made
from the contents of former mission-
ary boxes, but he lacks those two ar-
ticles. You have a lint of persons to
solicit, and you must have the articles
at Mrs. Percy's house by the fifteenth."
"Well, of all things!" cried Florence
as she looked hastily at the list of
names, "Here's Mrs. Trent, a lone
widow, and has been for ten years.
Where would she get a sweater or the
money to buy one? And here's Mrs.
Block. She wouldn't give a penny to
anything or anybody. I must say they
gave me a nice list."
"Florence," said Mrs. Banks, trying
to keep the chuckles out of her voice,
"your mother and I have been imposed
upon in the missionary society so long
that we tamely submit. I did try to
say a word for you, but you know how
it is. I'll admit that your committee
is encourgaing; but do your best, dear.
The minister's wife sent a brave let-
ter, but the case is very pathetic. They
are up in the bitter cold weather of
Montana, trying to minister to the
needs of the forlorn miners, and they
deserve encouragement. There are
seven in the family, and the salary Is
;pitifully small; Mrs. Erarson took the
baby on her list; the others are well
l{rrovided tor."
"I'Il do my best," said Florence,
"You have an easy task," said Mrs.
Menke. "Ask Jack Hughes or John
Temple or some of the boys in your
er0wd for the overcoat and the sweat-
ier and collect what money you can for
?esokties, shoes and the small articles
Abet boys need at college,'
i "I dou't see anything easy about it,
Jeers. Banks. Here I am housekeeping
'ear mother while she's away for the
;winter, and tatting care of little Paul-
l/le for my married sister, and,—"
"Tel trade with you," said Mrs.
Banks soberly. "I have the minister;
,and all be needs is a fur coat, a heavy
lap robe, a sweater, a pair of—"
"I'll stick to Oliver, thank you," in-
terrupted Florence hastily,
The instant that Mrs, 'Banes .left
the house Florence Orton rushed to
,the
telephone. A few moments later
elle was saying into the transmitter,
:r'Jack, can you spare an overcoat or a
sweater?"
"A.n overcoat?" carne baok over the
wire,
'1 want an overcoat for the mission -
my box," explained Florence. "You
have too many clothes • for one young
Man, and out en tlua'frrontier there's a
boy who needs an overcoat•a.nd sweat
ler, Oh, thank you! You 11 have them
flown here sure by the twelfth, Thank
,sen!"
But as she; bung up the receiver she
remembered that Jack Iinghes . was.
I orgeLful it night be well to try an-
rather, place. So she :telephoned to
;Fred Vincent and explained ence more.
Of course I will," said the young
(rran cheer•fltliy. 'I've been thinking
lof: giving two sweaters away to the
�'g`arhage 014n. I wore them at col-
lege, and they aro good, blit I leve no
Wes for thein now."
it With the aid of the telephone Floe -
plea solicited all of the person t on her
list, and by night she had a neatly
written memorandum of articles and
of sums of money promised for Oliver,
"I'm sorry I made such a fuss," she
said penitently as she looked over her
paper. "It was easier than I expected,
and, Oliver will be nicely fitted out.
I'll use the money to buy pretty ties,
handkerchiefs, books, school supplies
and gloves—no. I won't do that. I'll
ask some of the ether hogs for those
things and send him the money."
Oliver's clothes soon came to be a
joke among Florence's friends, for
every young man was personally solic-
ited time and again for some contra
bunion. The more Florence worked
the more interested she became. In
glowing terms ebe pictured the boy's
struggles to get an education, and so
often did she repeat the tale that it
grew to be very funny to all her
friends,
"Florence, I haven't had time to
bunt up that overcoat and sweater,
but I will," said Jack Hughes when he
met her on the street one snowy day.
"If you find a pair of discarded over-
shoes bring them too," said Florence
hastily, "I'm on my way now to so-
licit seine reference books from Tom
Gresham. Do you know, I'm getting a
little bit worried about the clothes
that have been promised. This is the
Itentb, and nobody has sent anything."
"You can depend on me," said Jack,
"I hope so," replied Florence,
There's Bruce Corbin; I'll see if he
cant' spare some neotaes for Oliver."
As she sped down the street in great
baste after the other young man Jack
laughed softly to himself.
On the morning of the eleventh
Florence was awakened before day-
light to tell a man at the door what to
do with a large box that he had been
paid to deliver at the Orton house.
"There must be some mistake," said
Florence sleepily.
"I have orders to bring it hers. I'll
dump 1t on the porch. It says: 'Miss
Florence Orton' as plain as anything.
Florence was back in bed again
when the maid came softly to say that
another box had arrived. Her little
niece, Pauline, began to tease to see
what was in the boxes, and Florence,
now thoroughly awake, dressed in a
hurry and ran downstairs. On the
front porch she found the second huge
box. She went back to dress Pauline,
but before she had finished the maid
came to the room again and exclaimed
"A third box! I wonder what's hap-
pened, bliss Florence."
"I don't know; but as soon as Pete
oomea to attend to the furnace have
him pry off a Cover.e
W must see
what is the matter."
Pete obligingly pried off some
boards, and Florence drew out neatly
wrapped parcel. At that moment
three more boxes arrived,
"Sweaters!" said, Florence as she
ran to the sitting room to examine the
parcel, "From Jack Hughes."
By nine o'clock, afterseveral more
boxes had come, Florence discovered
that the young men had played a joke
on her; but she was far from resent-
ful, She was to busy telephoning here
and there to think of being angry.
Two dozen girls receivedhurried calls
to report at the Orton house at once.
The busy maid served no luncheon
that day,' Pauline was sent to the
home of a .neighbor, and Pete tried to
run three ways at once in doing what
the girls told him to. do,
"Hello! . What's this? said Jack
Hughes that afternoon as he and John
Temple were on their way to call at
the Orton borne, A grinning small
boy on the street corner had thrust a
handbill at him, " 'Great, Sale of
Clothtug Good as new,' Jack read-
" 'Sweaters Once Worn by the Famous
Football Star, Jack Hughes!' What
do you think of that, John? Florence
has turned the joke on us sure
enough.
Temple heldanother hill In his hand
and was staring at the three inch let
tars:
"Articiee` Generously Donated, by
our Celebrated Fellow Townsmen!
Bale Now Going On in the Brown
Block! Neckties, Slane, Gloves,: Over-
coats, Sweaters and Articles too Num.
General Sir George Higginson (seated) age 99 Years and the oldest gen-
eral in the British army, chatting outside Westminster Abbey at the instal-
lation ceremony of the Order of the Bath.
erons to Mention. Come! Come!
Come! Come!"
"GW'o'll have to be game," said Jack,
"They've evidently hired that empty
store on Rain Street,
The two young men quickened their
pace and soon reacbsd the Brown
Block, There they found a good-na-
tured, laughing crowd of mon, women
and children fingering geode and tail:
ing and buying.
"Those girls must have worked like
beavers!" said Jack as be elbowed his
way to the sweater department, "I
thought we had begged, borrowed and
dug up enough old duds to swamp a
second-hand store, but they have sys-
tem and order here. I can't resist the
temptation to buy something. Madam,
what do you ask for that beautifril
all -wool sweater?" he asked as one of
the girls came to wait on him.
"You may have it for two dollars,"
said the young lady. "It was once
worn by the celebrated--"
"Yes, that's the reason 1 want it,"
interrupted Jack, getting out the
money,
"And I'll take this one," said John
Temple. "I see it has been worn by
the famous I,Ir. Temple; so I must
have it before some one else comes
this way. Bruce! Bruce! Here's the
thing you've been looking for!" he
added, turning to a red-faced man who
had just come M. "Here's a bargain!
A sweater almost new marked sixty-
nine cents and once the property of
the distinguished Mr, Corbin."
"ell take it," said Bruce Corbin, pro-
ducing a dollar. ""ever mind the
change."
Finally the crowd thhrned a little,
and the tired, hungry, excited clerks
had a chance to get their. breath.
"This afternoon we took in ane hun-
dred and nicety -one dollars and eleven
cents," said Florence when she had
counted the cash on hand, "And look
at the stock we have left!"
The great sale of clothing lasted
three days and more, and in the end
everything was converted into money.
When the box reached the poverty
stricken home ou the frontier, all the
fancily gathered round to unpack ft,
"Nothing at all for Oliver except
that envelope!" said tittle Amy in a
disappointed tone, "No overcoat! No
sweater! That's a mean shame,
Oliver was gazing wide-eyed at a
strip of paper that he bald in tremb-
ling hands, "Yes, there Is something,
baby," he said. "Here's a cheque for
enough money for overcoat, sweater
and everything, and with the work
that I'm going to do there'& enough to
see me through several years of col-
lege!"—Youth's Companion.
Along g t
o ile Norfolk and d Suffolk
coasts thirty acres of England dis-
appear annually as a result of sea
erosion.
Fortune turns her back on the man
who turns back.
Enmity to Britain of Long
Standing.
The enmity of Emperor William II.
to England is shown anew in German
Foreign Office document's, Volume
XIII. of which is about bo be publish-
ed here.
In 1897 he discussed with Chancel-
lor von Hoheniohe and other German
statesmen the formation of a Conti-
nental European League against Eng-
land, but they dissuaded him from his
purpose,
When the Anglo -German Comrner-
cial Treaty was denounced by Eng-
land 01 the summer of 1897, William
saw in her action the beginning of
what he called a "war to the knife"
against Germany, and declared that
England alined at the annihiliation of
German industry, and would attain her
purpose unless Germany built a big
navy. He also used other happenings
la the same year t0 impress upon Ger-
man statesmen the necessity 'of Ger-
many increasing her navy.
Documents contain numerous mar-
ginal notes in Wiliiani's handwriting.
The final publication will be of
documents dealing with the outbreak
of the World War in 1914,
Still Too Red,
"I see your radical friend is less red
than he was."
"Yes; but hasn't yet attained that
pink of perfection we'd like to see,"
It Sounds Reasonable.
"Mother, wasn't that a tunny dream
I had last night?" said a little boy Who
was busily engaged with his breakfast
cereal,
"Why, I'm sure I don't know!" re-
plied his mother, "I haven't the slight-
est idea what your dream was about."
"Why mother, of course you know!"
said the boy reproachfully. "You were
In 11."
—g
Unexplored Part of U.S.
One of the largest unexplored areas
in the United States lies in a triengu.
Jar space between the Colorado aud
the San Juan rivers, in southeastern
Utah. Here an area, as large as some
of the smaller eastern states still ,re-
mains practically unknown to white
men.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are
those which never come,
ray
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OF INDEPENDENCE
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FICA GT THEIR WA's TO
THE TOP OF THE WORLD
Will Captaii Geoffrey Bruce aind, His Band- of British 'Ex-
plorers `Mille Good Their'Challenge to Mother Nature
in Their Present Effort to Attain Lofty Peak of . Mount
.
'Everest?
"Just you wait, old thing; we'll get
you yet!"
That threat was made by young
Captain Geoffrey Bruce, of the Sixth
Gurkha Rifles, two years ago when
standing et the world's .record moun-
toinaering altitude -27,235 feet above
to sea level, on the slopes of Mount
Everest, the world's. bigbest ,mountain.
There is a possibility that be will be
unable, to make good his promise, for
he has been 14 with malaria and may
not be euMcfently recovered to ac-
oompauy the party on the 1924expedi-_
tion,
The challenge to Nature was'utter-
ed as the captain glared back at the
virgin' summit of the "Roof of the
World" and shook his :flat at it. He"
had been forced to give up the unequal
struggle against the icy blasts blow-
ing at a hundred miles an hour across
the Himalayas.
Present Expedition le the Third.
There have been already two ex-
peditions to Mount Everest—one in
the form of a reconnaissance ltt 1921,
the other a serious effort in 1922. But
though the 1922 expedition 'broke all
high -climbing records, yet its members
failed to reach the actual summit of
the great mountain by fewer than
1800 feet, It is believed by those best
able bo judge that.the 1924 expedition
will achieve macess. They will be
aided by the past experiences and the
valuable knowledge then gained re-
garding the best method of surmount-
ing
urmounting the terrific obstacles confronting
them. And among those now trailing
across Tibet are six of the members
of the two former expeditions,
Whether or not the 1924 attempt
will succeed depends chiefly ou incal-
culable factors of wind and weather;
but nothing _that experience can dic-
tate or that supreme courage can ac-
complish will be left undone by Cap-
tain Bruce's nieii next month.
Those who saw the remarkable pic-
tures taken by Captain Noel with his
Cinematograph machine on the slopes
of the mountain In 1922 will have real-
ized something of the heroic endeav-
ors of these mountaineers in lighting
the forces of nature against almost
superhuman odds. Those daring men
who participated in this great adven-
ture in high altitudes are truly the
lineal desoendaats in Adventure's
family tree of Drake and Frobiser, of
Stanley and Livingstone, and the coun-
terparts of Peary and Scott,
Two years ago the high climbers
succeeded in proving three well -ac-
cepted theories of scientists and doe
tors to be wrong. The first fact 1
proved was that It Is possible feel
human beings to live at very high alta-,
Ludes without the aid of .oxygen gas,
even at a height of 27,000 feet, and
yet not suffer any ill effects as a con -1
sequence; -secondly, that cigarette -
smelting adds greatly to the comfort!
and breathing of the mountaineers at
high altitudes, and thirdly, that aim -
holm stimulant is helpful at high alta.
Ludes when climbers, are exhausted,
Canadian's Endurance,
Dr, Wakefield, the Canadian mem,
ter of the 1922 expedition, lived at the
high altitude of the third Camp (the
advance base) with a number of the
Sherpa porters for weeks on end with.
out going down to lower levels for a
change and rest. And some 01 the
climbers — Leigh -Mallory, Norton,
Somervell and Morshead --reached fif-
teen feet below 27,000' test without ;the
aid of the oxygen apparatus. And
none of them suffered afterward from
heart strain,
Those who went up to camps at alti-
tudes of 25,000 and 20,500 feet admit
that the act of breathing was difficult;
but it was not painful. The second
climbing party—Finch and Bruce—
used the oxygen gas in order to reach
27,235 feet, but their experience seem-
ly proved that oxygen made the labor
of climbing easier, At the very high-
eetoanip oxygen was used to belp the
climbers to sleep properly so that they
could be tit next day for their strenu-
ous efforts to roach the summit of the
Mountain at 29,002 feet.
Captain George Finch, who hse
charge of the oxygen apparatus in
1922—and does not accompany the Pre-
sent expedition -gave urea some in-
teresting sidelights on the wardrobe
of mountaineers. He said that he al-
ways wore four complete suits of un-
der•clothing; and, on top of all his
other items of clothing,' he wore an
elaborately quilted coat es an added
protection against the cold. ' He says
that woolen garments are not so good
Against the icy winds as silk, or loath,
er ones, and it was for this reason
that the Gurkha, Tejbir Bura, failed to
keep up with Bruce and himself when
they reached the record height of
27,235 feet. As a rule he first put on
a suit of silk underclothes, then one of
light wool, next one of medium -weight
wool, then a fourth of thick wool, next
a fifth suit of the very thickest sub-
etanoe he could discover -and then he
really began to dress in earnest!
In the attempt of 1922 the whole,
climbing party was snatched by an
avalanche of snow from the mountain-
side and swept down tor hundreds of
feet toward the cliff of a glacier; and
seven of the cheerfuland courageous
porters with the party were swept t0
instant death over its brink." The
others saved themselves by swim-
ming the breast stroke in the snow,
and only came to a halt on the very
edge of the five-nundred-foot drop over
the glacier's perpgndlcular reds,
Captain Noel, the official photo-
grapher of the 1922 expedition, took
his motion -picture camera higher than
any one had carried one before; and
he spent fournights and live days at
an altitude of more than four miles
above the sea level in order to record
the assault on the summit. His pic-
tures show the huge glaciers of ice,
the vast snow -fields, the awe-llama/lag
storms that rage around time remote
regions, and the range upco range of
icy pinnacles, many of which stand a
thousand Peet In height. Taken at re-
cord heights, the pictures were then
developed --sone in a tent on' the
talopes of the Rongbuk Glacier and
some in the aid Tibetan fort at.
Gyantse,
Will Follow 1922 Route.
The present expedition will follow
the same route as in 1922. They will
climb and establish their high camps
up the East Rongbuk Glacier, There
is the key to the position. At this
point they will be level with the high-
est mountain in any other country in
the world; but they will still have an-
other 6000 feet to -climb in order to
gain the summit of Mount Everest,
Two years ago the Indo of the
weather—more than anything else—
was, against the success of the expsdi-
Lion. The weather tactor is a most
important one. It is hoped this year
that the monsoon will not break a
week earlier than its custom, as it did
in 1922, for it covers the steep rook
sigh of the mountain with new snow
and makes the dangers of the ice -Clad
ascent infinitely more difficult to over-
come. With better weather condltione
this year, it will be possible for the
climbers and their native porter.% to
carry their high camps to altitudes
which will make the final dash shorter
and, therefore, easier at one effort. If
they can place two more camps at
elevations of 27,500 and 28,000 feet,
the remaining thousand feet will not
be so difficult to accomplish.
To Aid Lagga, _ . ndustries.
What amounte to a seoon;} "oaures-
dayBook" is being prepared ed at
o
ill,
new County Hall at Westminster, the
work of the Rural Intelligence Bureau,
which aims: at the regeneration of the
lite of the countryside, says a London
despatch.
The bureau started work In 1921
and now has amassed a heap of infor-
mation about rural industries, mar
kete and the obsolete methods in use
In many country places and the best
occupations far' individual workers to
take up. Tito bureau is trying to en-
courage the adaptation of up-to-date
methods in the country, methods uuore.
suited to modern needs. For instance,
although .the motor trade far over-
slradowe horse traffic and the lattor's
needs, few-oountry garages have in•
terested themselves ,h1 the repair and
maintenance of agrlculta cal machine-
ry. To take one county alone, Oxford-
shire, fifteen to twenty years- ago
there was plenty of work for three or
four b1•acicsmiths; new one is sufficient.
Where three saddlers formerly i'otrnd
employment one nowadays finds - It.
difficult to get enough wont, ;The rural
blacksmith' upsd to, wait for work to
come to him, but to -day he cannot af-
ford to do this, and the bureau is' try.
ing to help him find other occupations:
'Last year Mere than a million dol -
tars' worth of feathers were imported
into this country, to be -ailed for til1-
ing hed5 end 'cushions and for lnfllin-,
cry, and yet the bureau found country
poulbry keepers throwing feathers
away. .Dive industry which the; bureau
already 'lute started in the •country is
the naking of s
tri
W Tope9 and enve-
lopes
lopes for shielding bottles and polish-
ed work in transit, an industry which
11;werly was practically.unknown to
the '1,115,,11*, countryside The bureau
bopes that•`teeeld country occupations
fade away under`nr3 ern conditions It
will be able to suggest'nsw occupa-.
tions• to the meal workers. a.
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Only a Rest Left,
"Rockabilt, the great multimillion-
aire, is going to take a rest.
"Can't help hfinself, I guess --it's
the only thing left he hasn't 'already
taken."
Honesty is best whether it is policy
The wrist watch is usually consider-
ed a modern -development of the watch
and clock industry, but Queen -Eliza-
beth wore the first ono about the same
time she introduced silk stockings.
The Oldest Superstition`
in the Word. -
We all feel very wile nowadayA
about the moon, and smile indulgently, '
as we relate takes, of its lonely old
Male Inhabitant to the young.
O'nr ;wtledgni, 'based as it is upon
maps andi,,Pkotographs and scientific
theories, is, however, of very recent
origin. .The moon for generations. was
the greatest' mystery of mankintle-
greater even than the sun. When
Galileo, in 1609, first turned his tele-
scope upon the moon, he created
throughout Europe a much greater
sensation than did Columbus when he
discovered America.
Till then the scientific men had be-
lieved . in Aristotle's theory, that the
moon is a perfectly smooth and round
body, its markings being bhe eon-
tinents of the world, reflected, as fa'
a mirror.
Everyone else explained away the
mysterious' marks with myths. There
is nothing more remarkable in history
than the strange resemblances which
exist between the explanations given
by different races.
Eternal Isolation.
Almost ail of them interpreted the
marks as being a man carrying a'
bundle of wood. Furthermore, they
all seemed to regard him as one xrho,
on account of a crime, was condemned
to eternal isolation on the moon. He
was, indeed, a horrible example to
young and old alike,
In European countries the story gen-
erally had a so'eailed Biblical' signi-
ficance. In England, it was Moses who.
found a man gathering sticks on the
Sabbath, and expelled him to the
moon. The reference sesme to he to
a passage in the fifteenth chapter of
Numbers, but the resemblaaoe is only
slight.
A Peasant's Punishment.
In France, the man in the moon ie
none other than Judas Iscariot, and
the wood a load which lee must always
carry are a punishment.
The earliest English record appears
in the writings of a St. Albans monk,
It is a slight variation of the usual
tlrame:—
A rustic in the moon,
Whose burden weighs him down,
This changeless truth reveals,
He profits not who steals.
The German version dealt with a
peasant who was reprimanded by an
angel for gathering faggots on a Sun.
day. He replied, "Sunday on earth,
or Monday in heaven, it is all the sante
to me." For this, he was sent to an
eternal moon -day in heaven,
Origin of Jack and JIII.
A uniqueversion is the Scandinav-
ian. It attracted the attention of the
late Rey, Baring -Gould, who traced It
to Its. origin: In Norway, not only was
there a man in the moon, but some
other of the marks were deciphered
as a woman. Their names were re-
epeetively Hjuki (pronounced Suitt)
and Bil.
The myth is that first Hjuki disap.
peered, or fell, and then Bill. When
the moon was In this ,phase, there was
supposed to be much rain. Iu our
nursery rhyme, Multi becomes Jack,
Bill becomes, Jill, and the rain 10 noth-
ing more than the upsetting of a pail
of water.
In certain raoes the man In the
moon, far from being a criminal, 10 a
being who, on account o8 great wis-
dom, was transferred to the moon,
from which he could see all.
To the Chinese hs is Yue -Lao, who
arranges all marriages. The medicihe
men of ,the old Red Indian tribes re-
ceived their power by departing into
the middle of a lake and holding con-
sultation with the man in the moon,
Town and Country.
"Sally says there are no fairies,
Sally laves in town,
Bally s a ,
My haface as browhitewn;face
People in the town are clever,
Country talks are slow,
Seely: don't_ believe in fairies—
Townspeople
airies—
Town p eo le know.
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"Sally says if flowers were growing
Where the Children play,
Harebells on the hilleicle,
Red poppies gat.
Daisies white in greenest meadows.
Buttercups of gold,.
They'd be tied in penny, bunches
And quickly sold.
"Sally"capa,�y�s'-there are no linnets
Single- u the tree
Cages are for.song-birds,
Not liberty; `\•,,
All a pack o' country i3Ontiense
Skylarks on the wing-_
Sally says we have n0 music, `�„
TOwrr-birds can sing.
"Sally says the wind dont w-hiep01
Stories of delight.:
Wonder -tales of old-time,
Goblin ant. sprite:
Never hint of wreck and iceberg
Comes on winter gust
Sally says the wind Just freezes
Or chokes with dust,
"Sally don't believe in, fairies,
Sally lives in town,
Sally as a white face,
My face Is brown;
People: in the town.are clever,
Country folk are slow,
Ah, but Sally, let, are teach you
The things I know."
•-Westminster Gazette.
The rich of to -clay were the Poor og
yesterday. Career ups •