VFOE BOYS AND GIELS SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. rr. Green' * Ounloii A Load , Willlo Will Carry u Smart iMMl Htircuftcr Quaor Turtle The 1'rlnces of Ktletibuy. The 1'rlncoft of Kdonlmy. There were two little princes of Eden- bay Princes I Can't and I Can ; And to school they went on the very first day That the very first school hegan. And the Prince I Can't took a poor little whim Into his royal head ; And whenever a task was given to him , "I can't ! I can't ! " he said. Now he wasa prince who had his way , And a poor little way 'twas , too ! For he nothing did from day to day Save just what he wanted to do. But his brother I Can , a younger lad , "Was made on a different plan , Tor to every single lesson he had He would say , "I can ! I can ! " S& wise and great grew the Prince I Can , By doing as he was hid ; \ But the other became an ignorant man , ij And naught that was good he did. These princes' descendants you'll find today Wherever Is civilized man ; " ' " have had their The "I Can't" folks who way , And the people who say "I can ! " Emma C. Dowd. ( BTr. Croon's Gnrden. , t Next to the small red cottage where 4 ! Archie and Nellie King lived there was a large vacant lot with a high fence Vound it. The only yard the Kings ' ' 'had was a narrow strip back of the i house , and as they had once lived in J the country , this seemed very small to the children , and they used to peep through the cracks in the fence and wish they could get over there among the weeds to play. Archie was nine years old , but a hurt received when he was a baby had made him lame , and Nellie , who was two years younger , was almost as tall. Their father was dead , and Archie was very anxious to help his mother , who had to work hard to support them ; but there did not seem to be anything for such a little boy to do except to be useful at home , and he tried to be that. On the other side of the vacant lot there was a shop that had been un occupied for a long time. One morning - * ing , when the children passed on their ' way to school , the door was wide open , and a tall , rosy-faced man stood there superintending the carrying in of a quantity of lumber. He nodded pleas antly to them in a way that said quite plainly , "I like little people. I was young once myself. " It was not long before they found out that his name was Green , and that he had rented the shop for some sort of carpentering ) work. One day , .when they were at play in the hack yard , the children dis covered some men cutting down weeds In the vacant lot "What do you sup pose they are going to do ? " asked Nel lie. "Build a house , I guess , " said Archie. The prospect of this was ex citing , and with the aid of some barrels and boxes they contrived to get up high enough to see over the fence. And there was Mr. Green busily directIng - Ing the men ! He saw them and waved his hand. "I am going to have a gar den in a short time , " he said. This ' 0 made Archie think of the garden they used to have in the country , where cab bages and potatoes and all kinds of vegetables grew. He had helped his father take care of it. and he won dered if Mr. Green would not want a boy to weed his. He spoke to Nellie about it , but she was sure it would be a flower garden , for people didn't have vegetable gardens in town. This might ' be. Mr. Green had not said what he < 'A expected to raise ; but then , flowers > ould have to be weeded and watered. -So without saying anything to anyone Archie slipped over to the shop next day. When he was fairly inside the door his heart almost failed him , and when Mr. Green looked up from his desk , where he was writing , and ex claimed , "Hello ! Where did you come from ? " he was so startled he came near running away. He didn't , how ever , but went bravely up to the desk. "I have come to see if you don't want a boy to weed your garden , sir. I know how , and could do it , and I am anxious- find a place , because there ! s no one else to help mother. Nellie would help , too , and we'd be very careful. " Mr. Green looked down at him with an odd expression in his ayes , and said : "So you want to weed my garden , do you ? Well , I may need i boy , by and by , when my crop begins lo grow. " The children went away for several weeks , and came home late one evening. Early next day they ran out lo see how Mr. Green's garden was coming on , and beholdinstead ! , of po tatoes and cabbages , or even flowers , there were rows of gaily painted swings. There were single swings , and double swings , and swings to hold four persons , and some had awnIngs - Ings over them to keep off the sun. The ground was covered with tanbark - bark except around the edge , where there was a border of grass , and the board fence on the street had been replaced - [ placed by an iron one with a gate , * ibove which was this sign : "Automat- ; Swing Co. " While the children were razing at this surprising sight , Mr. Sreen came walking down between the rows of swlugs and asked thorn how they liked his garden. The/ lik ed It very much , Indeed , hut Archie couldn't help feeling disappointed un til Mr. Green said : "I have to bo In the shop most of the time , and I want' some one to stay around here and let me know when customers come in. Do you think you and Nellie could do this ? Of course I'd expect you to swing a good deal , for that will help to advertise. " So it happened that all throv&h the summer in pleasant weath er passers-hy saw two blue-eyed chil dren in a swing near the gate , and if any one entered he was met by Archie with , "Do you want to look at swings ? We have some very nice ones. I'll call Mr. Green. " The Automatic Swing Co. did a good business that season , and every Saturday the children dropped a silver quarter Into their bank , and even Archie came to the conclusion that for a town a swing garden was better than a vegetable garden. MARY F. LEONARD. A T.azy Man's Thump , thump , thud ! How many times It had occurred In the last few minutes that noise ! Willie didn't cry , for hadn't grandma called him , only that morning , "My little man , and who ever heard of a man crying because he had let fall an armful of wood ? Nevertheless , ho did look so woe-begone and humpty-dumpty-like , sitting on the lowest stair in grand pa's well filled woodshed , with his late armful of wood scattered about him like a "spill" of gigantic jackstraws ! Slowly he picked himself up , and care fully gathered the straggling sticks , making ' "most a cord , " it seemed to Willie. One , two , three stairs had been mounted , when again thump , thump , thud ! went his wood , flying in more directions than before. "Well , well , well ! " 'Twas grandpa's jolly voice as he looked down from the floor above. "O , grandpa ! I've had just the awfulest time ! The wood won't stay where I put it ! " and Willie's so ber , upturned face was met by grand pa's smiling countenance coming down the stairs. "I'm afraid my Willie-boy has been taking 'a lazy man's load , ' hey ? " said grandpa , as he surveyed the crisscross sticks on the floor. "Why , grandpa , I'm not lazy , am I ? " asked Willie , quickly. "I tried and tried to carry as much as you could I did , really and truly ! " "Ah , there's where you made your mistake , my boy , Couldn't you have gone a number of times easily with a smaller load , while you were tugging away with so much ? " "Y-e-s ! " answered Willie , thoughtfully. "Trying to carry too much of anything , " said grandpa , slow ly , as he sat down on the sawhorse , "is what I call 'a lazy man's load ; ' for a lazy man always tries to carry every thing at once , for fear he may take a few useless steps , and by so doing causes himself double work , besides unnecessary worry and trouble. Had you taken a smaller load , you would have had no trouble in carrying it , and by this time your wood box would have been full ! " "Grandpa , " and Wil lie put his sturdy little arms resolute ly about his grandfather's neck , "I'm tired carrying a lazy man's load , and shall always carry a smart man's load hereafter. " Then as he ran away whistling with what wood he could comfortably carry , grandpa nodded , "And he'll remember it , too ! " ADELBERT F. CALDWELL. Smile on Sic. A sweet story is told by Miss Anna Gordon of a little three-year-old girl , the pet of the household , who came down a few minutes late to breakfast. She had one foot on the round of her chair , but was not allowed to climb up until her papa had asked the bless ing. Then , as she looked all around her and saw every face grave and seri ous , she thought the family were of fended , and her child's heart was broken. "Oh , mamma ! " she cried , with quivering lips , "smile on me. " The child's impulse was natural. A smile means cheer , love , sunshine , and the cry of the human heart always is , "Smile on me ! " A young girl on her way to school met a poor old man on the street corner with flowers to sell. "I had no pennies to buy flowers with , " the girl said simply , "but I gave him a smile. " The smile warmed the old man's heart for the next hour and softened his hard life with a glint oC happiness. It is a pity that any one in the whole world should go hungry for a smile when a smile costs noth ing. With each one of us , we know how loneliness and heartache may be eased and how the aspect of a whole day may be changed by a kindly glance , a friendly look. Let us see to it that we do not withhold this com fort from one another. In heaven God shall wipe away tears from all eyes. Let us anticipate heaven , and make earth as much like it as possible by remembering the little child's cry , "Smile on me.Frances Bennett Cal- laway. Queer Turtle Fishing : . A curious mode of catching turtles is practiced in the West Indies. It consists in attaching a ring and a line to the tail of a species of sucker fish , which is then thrown overboard , and immediately makes for the first turtle he can spy , to which he attaches him self very firmly by means of a sucking apparatus arranged on the top of his head. The fisherman tten hauls boih turtle and sucking fish in. Xo Candy or Cakes. The Cubans make no candy to speak of , and their cakes are so high in price that only the rich buy them. Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Franklin. Excitement was caused in a church In London during the morning service last week by a loud voice from the gallery forbidding the banns of a cou ple desirous of getting married , be cause the woman had a canonical hus band living. The voice was that of the famous Father Black , who takes every opportunity to protest publicly against the marriage of divorced per sons. Curiously enough , Father Black is well known and popular in English society and is much sought after as a guest in country houses. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together , and until the last few years was nupposed to bo incurable. For a ifreat many years doctors pro nounced It a local disease , and prescribed local remedies , and by constantly failing to euro with local treatment , pronounced it Incurable. Science has pro-en catarrh to be a constitu tional disease , and therefore requires consti tutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure , man ufactured by P. .T. Cheney & Co. . Toledo , Ohio , is the only constitutional cure on the market It Is taken internally in doses from 10 drops tea a teaspoonfuL It acts directly upon the blood nnd mucous surfaces of the system. They offer ono hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. CHKNEY & CO. , Toledo , Ohio. Sold by Druggists , TSc. Hall's Family Pills arc the best. It takes more religion to hold a man level in a horse trade than it does to make him shout at a campmeeting. Oklahoma. Its wonderful resources .and superior advantages to homeseckers are set forth in a handsome illustrated pam phlet just issued by the Frisco Line Passenger Department. Copy will be mailed free on application to Bryan Snyder , General Passenger Agent , St. Louis , Mo. Everbody wants to get In on the ground floor. That's why there is al ways plenty of room at the top. The annual report of the Chicago , Burilngton & Qulncy railroad shows : Gross earnings for the year were ? 43,389,424 , as compared with ? 42,800- 162 last year ; operating expenses were $28,253,959 , an increase of $325,679 over 1898 ; $5,238,370 were paid in dividends , leaving a surplus for the year of ? 1,489,929. The report gives the total mileage of the system as 7,249 , an In crease of ninety-nine miles over last year. Some women are considered wise because they are considerate enough to keep their opinions to themselves. Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consnmp- tioii cured ine of a bad lung trouble. Mra. J. Nichols , Princeton , Ind. , Mar. 26,1895. He who rules with a rod of iron should select a malleable one. Don't Go Brolco IVlien Von Hot. Send for my invaluable svstem. Geo. H. Richmond , 225 Dearborn St. , Chicago. Clever persons often bore stupid ones more than stupid ones bore them. $15.OO PER WEEK. TVe will pay $15.00 per week and expenses for man with rig to introduce our Poultry Mixture and Insect Destroyer in the country. Address , with stamp , EXCELSIOR MFG. Co.ParsonsKan. Minister Russell , at Caracas , has in formed the state department that the Venezuelan government has ordered t.jat , for a period of sixty days , corn and beans shall be admitted free of duty , and that for the same period rice shall pay only 2 cents per kilo. Some people are so mean that they won't even speak the truth unless it is for the purpose of hurting some one's feelings. When one Avoman praises another the praise is usually tinged with sar casm. woman suffering from any female trouble cau be EVERY by Mrs. Pinkham. This statement is based on sound reasoning and an unrivalled record. Multitudes of America's women to-day bless Mrs. Pinkham for competent and common-sense advice , c Write to her if you are ill. Her address is Lynn , Mass. Absolutely no charge is made for advice. "I suffered seven years and would surely have died but for your help , " writes MRS. GEO. BAINBRIDGE , Morea , Pa. , to Mrs. Pinkham. It is with pleasure I now write to inform you that I am now a healthy woman , thanks to your kind advice and wonderful medi cine. I can never praise it enough. I was a constant sufferer from womb trouble , and leucorrhrea , had a continual pain in abdomen. Sometimes I could not walk across the floor for three or four weeks at a time. Since using your medicine , I now have no more bear ing-down pains , or tired feelings , and am well and hearty. I shall recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound to all my suffering friends as the greatest remedy for all female weakness. " MRS. SUSIE J. WEAVER , 1821 Callowhill St. , Phila delphia , Pa. , writes : DEAR MRS. PINKHAM I had inflammation of the womb and painful men struation , and by your advice I began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. Have taken four bottles and used one package of Sanative Wash and feel like a new woman. I thank you so much for what your medi cine has done for me. " MRS. M. BAUMANN , 771 W. 2istSt , Chicago , 111. , writes : "After two months' trial ofLydiaE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I can not say enough in praise for it. I wes a very sick woman with womb trouble when I began its use , but now I am well. " A well preserved Roman camp has been discovered on the right bank of the Narenta , in Herzegovina. A sec tion 310 feet long by 270 feet wide has been traced. Part of the walls , gates and towers are still standing , and many utensils and weapons have been dug up. It Is believed that the camp was erected In the time of Nero. Perhaps you may have observed that a lawyer charges a larger fee for ob taining a divorce than a clergyman does for performing the marriage cere mony. Fred Pelton , colored , was sentenced at Little Rock , Ark. , to 115 years in the penitentiary for attempting to out rage seven women in this city in Au gust. The grand jury returned indict ments against him at noon , and he was arraigned within a few hours. He acknowledged his guilt and his attor ney asked the mercy of the court. If assessed , the maximum punishment in all seven cases would have been 147 years. It is said there is no fool like an old fool but there are some young ones that run a close second. THE GRIP CCRE THAT DOES CURE. Laxative Brome Quinine Tablets removes the cause that produces I > u Grippe. E. "W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. Conan Doyle's pet amusement is cricket. Even the quiet waiter is frequently called to order. They Would If a man should wear his pantaloons so long that whenever ho appeared on the street ho would be obliged to roach around behind r.nn-grah hold of tha basement and hold them up , wouldn't the ladles laugh ? Lowvllle ( N. 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I seven years placed me in thU tarrlble certainly recommend CASCARETS for condition- did everything I beard the cures they make and trust they of but never found any relief until I will find a place in every home. Yours began UKingCASCAKETS. 1 now have for success. " PcTSttWEBE.Jr. , from ono to three passages a day.ancl Palm Grove Ave. . McKeesport , Pa. if I was rich 1 would gfvo C10000 for each movement ; it is such a relief. " FOR CHILDREN. AYLMEIi LHCKT. . . 1GS3 Ru iell St. . Detroit. Midi. "I shnllncvcr be T lthont CASCAJiETS. My children are ; FOR BJLIOUSKESS. always delighted when I giro them a portion of a tablet , and cry for more. " I have iiied year valuable * They are the most pleasant medicine CAHCWJtETS and nnd them per 1 have over tried. They have found a fect. Couldn't do without them. I permanent ploco In my homo. " have need them for some time for In- Mas. Jotur FLAGEL , digertlon and bllioniness and am HOT Box 6SO , Michigan City , Ind. completely cured. Recommend them , to every one. Once tried , joa will never be without them in the family. ' ' FOR PILES. . A. M AUX , Albaay. K. Y. "I Buffered the torture * of the damned with protruding piles FOR WORMS. brought on by constipation with which I was adlctcd for twenty "A tape vrorm eighteen feet years. I ran across yoarCASCARETS lontratlcattc&mcon the rceno after in the town of Newell , la. , and never my taking two CASCAKETS. This \ found anything to equal them. To * am euro has caused ray bad health for day 1 am entirely free from piles and tbopostthreo year * . I am still talf- feel like a now man. " C. U.KEITZ , IDS Cascarcta , the only cathartic 1111 Jones St. , Sioux City , la. wortiiy of notice by fcnbiblo people. " 9 GEO. V/.BOWLKS , Bsil rclJIl3Z. FOR HEJMGHE , FOR DYSPEPSIA "Both \vlfo and * myvlfo myself have been using CASCARETS , and "For nix yearn I tvaavlc - they are the best mcdicino wo liavo tltu < > rdy pep Ui In Its worst form. ever had in the house. Last week my J couitl e.it nothing but milk toast , wife was frantic with licadicho for anu at tlruci my ctotnach would not two days : she tried some of your retain and digest even that. Laet CASCAKET3 and they relieved the JIarch I bewail taking CASCARETSJ pain in her head almost immediately. and since tnen 1 have steadily im Wo both recommend Cascaruts. " proved , until I am as rell as I ever CUAS. STEDEFOKD , was in my life. " Pittsburgh , Safe & Deposit Co. , IMYID H. Mcumr , XeTr&rk , O. Pittsburgh , Pa. FOB LAZY LIVER. . FOR BAD BREATH. . "IhaTcIieentroaljledasrreat * 'I have been nslnir CASCA- York."A a torpid liver , irlilch pro ItETS and as a mild and effective is the of the and the duces constipation. I found OASCA- laxative they are Dimply wonderful. Unerring judgment people , people like Cascarets. The sale this year HLTS to bo all you claim for them , My daughter and 1 were bothered and secured Euch relief tlio first trial with sick stomach and our breath was will be 5,000S00 boxes. Nothing succeeds like success and Cascarets are successful that 1 purchased another zcpply and very bad. After taking a few doses , , wta completely cured. I shall only of Uascareto wo have improved won because bctooKlad to recommend Cascareta derfully. They are a great help in , whenever the opportunity la pre- the family. " WILHKLMISA NAOEL. - . . 1137 Rlttenhouso St. , Cincinnati , Ohio. First , They are BO good that they outsell all other laxatives. Their tremendous sale proves -XK OSusquebanna Ave. , Philadelphia , Pa FOR PIMPLES. their merit , and their merit explains their tremendous sale ; . FOR BSD 3LGQD _ wife had pimples on her Second , Cascarets are the pioneer people's price preparation ten cents a box , and more health " * face CARETS , but and she they has been hare taking nil disap CAS- in a ten cent box of Cascarets than any 25c bottle of pills in the world. medicine. for "CASCAEirrS them and aio a truly ( lo all wonderful clalmerf peared. I liad been troubled with Third Cascarets results natural action of liver and Ihaicoftcn wiclied for a constipation for xomo time , but after , bring healthy , bowels never fail. The medicine last have pleasant found to take , and at no toting trouble the flrst with Caicaret this aliment. I hare had Wo manufacturers guarantee a cure or refund purchase money. Since tr.kins them it mr in blood CASCARBTS. haa been cannot rets. " apeak too FSED highly WARntAK of Casca , Fourth , Cascarets are successful because they deserve it. If your druggist don't sell Cascarets , better uroved purin > In d wonderfully and my complexion . , " and 1 feel has much 1m- 6703 G rmanwmn Are , he's behind the age. In that case order direct from us by mail post free. Address STERLING KEJIEDY every Maa. SALIJE way. E. Setum , Luttrell , Tena. COMPAITT , Chicago or New York. This is the tablet , always stamped "COG" dealers try to substitute , they want to Don't take a substitute ! Get wliat you ask for ! make more money out of you. Don't let them ! \