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"Thero'o only ono way to do It,"
said Serena,
"But wo couldn't, could weT" naked
llttlo Mrs. Dlalr, anxiously. "Wo
havo never had any strango people
,in our house."
"Ono boarder Isn't 'strango pco
.pie" Betty reminded her, "nnd I'll
advertlso for some dear old soul with
gray curls, and a lap dog I should
lovo the dog, mumsle."
Mrs. Blair sighed resignedly.
"You never could tako things so
irlously," sho said.
Serena smiled nnd ran away to get
;tho lunch. But when sho reached
itho kitchen her faco lost Its bright
moss. "If mother only knew," she
whispered to tho big yellow cat on
ithe window sill, "If mother only
'knew, I haven't money enough to
pay for tho advertisement."
"I want to put an advertisement In
a city paper," sho said to Alvln Green
that night, "and I haven't any money.
I guess I'll have to borrow It, and you
can tako your pay In cggB."
"All right," said Alvln Green. Ho
was an old friend of tho family and
kept tho village store.
"Mother doesn't know Just how
hard up wo are," Serena explained,
"but I told her we'd have to tako
some one to llvo with us, and flually
sho agreed."
Tho advertisement when written
read as follows:
"Board for single lady In private
family. Big first-floor bedroom open
ing on a porch. Fresh eggs, clo
ver honey, brook trout, spring chick
ens, homo cooking Fireplace, old
mahogany, solid Bllvor, lake view."
She hand It to Alvln.
"It's tho queerest advertisement I
ever saw," ho said.
"Well," Serena told him seriously,
"I put that In about tho mahogany
and tho silver because nice pcoplo
Jlko such things."
A few days later a letter camo.
Serena carried It ovor to Alvln.
"Listen to this," sho cried.
"Your advertisement sounds Ilko
peaches and cream to me," it said.
"I'm coming on Saturday night.
Don't let any ono elso have' that
room or the fresh eggs, and I want
to corner that honey and will you
pleaso have hot biscuits? I'll pay
twenty-five dollars a wqek. Don't
try to change my price, because I
shall probably make a lot of trouble,
and I want to bring my dogs."
"I wonder If it's Miss or Mrs.,"
said Serena, thoughtfully.
Alvln read the note again. "Well,
from tho kind of English sho uses,
and the way she slings around her
money, I should say she was a gay
widow, and I'll bet tho dog3 aro bull
pups."
On Saturday night tho big front
bedroom was In readiness. Thero
were roses In a sliver bowl on tho
shining mahogany dresser. Thero
were fresh whito curtains blowing
gently in the soft breeze. A llttlo
Are burned on tho hearth. "For sho
may be cold," said Serena, "and tho
evenings aro cool."
In tho dining room the table was
set with tho lino linen and the old
glass and silver that Mrs. Blair had
saved out of the wreck of her for
tunes. "She will bo hero at six," said
Serena, coming In from tho kitchen
where Miranda Meek presided over
the Btove. Serena had on a whlto
linen skirt and thin blouse, and her
red-brown curls were caught up high
on top of her head. "I, hope she'll
bo nice and that you will liko her."
A muffled scream from the kitchen
started both of them. Thon Miranda
burst In. "They'vo come in an auto
mobile. A great big red ono, and
there's two dogs on tho back seat,
and a man In front, and I don't see
any woman."
"It Isn't our boarder," said Serena,
peeping out "Probably something
has happened to that poor man's ma
chine; we'd better go nnd see."
But when sho roached tho porch
sho gave a little gasp of dismay, for,
the young man having descended
from his seat, was taking out bag3
and rugs and wraps!
Then ho camo up tho walk to
ward Serena. "You won't mind,"
ho said) cheerfully, "if I pile theso
things on the porch whllo I get the
rest. I'vo got such a lot of truck,
you know "
"But your mother " stammored
Serena. "When will sho bo hero?"
Ho stared at her. "My mother"
thon his oyes twinkled. "Oh, you
did say something about board for a
lady. But do you think I was going
to let you waste nil this richness on
a woman? Why, that 'brook trout'
took mo. Whero do thoy catch
them?"
"Alvln Green catchos ours," said
Sorona, stiffly.
"Now, look hero," said the young
man, "I'm afraid I'vo mado you feel
badly bocause I wasn't my aunt or my
mother or something. But really I
won't bo a bit of trouble And I'll try
to make myself as scarce as possible,
and If you don't llko mo you'll like
tho dogs."
I TEMPLE BAILEY I
Ho whistled and trio impatient col
lies sprang from tho auto.
"Oh, you beauties," said Sorcna, nnd
her eyes sparkled and her cheeks
wero pink, and tho young man under
his breath said, "You bcautyl"
Ho said tho samo thing tho .next
day to Alvln Green, as thoy cast their
flies into tho quiet pools. "I expected
to find a pair of old spiustorB, but tho
girl Is charming."
"Young man," said Alvln Green,
solemnly, "You'vo got to remember
that sho hasn't any father to tako
caro of her, nnd you'ro n rich man
don't disturb her penco of mind."
"I guess sho'fl disturb mlno moro
than I will hers," said Aycrs, rue
fully. "And tho worst of It Is, that
I'm not free."
".Married?" asked tho old man.
"Engaged," answered Ayers. "To
a lovely girl hut oh, a man can't
talk about such things."
Tho next morning thero wero brook
trout for breakfast, and waffles and
honey and a great dish of red rasp
berries. Sorcna, In a pfnk lawn, waited on
tho table. "I'm glad you liko every
thing," sho said, when Ayers praised
tho delicacies, "and I'm glad you aro
not an old lndy."
"Why aro you glad?" ho demanded.
"Bocauso you aro much nicer than
an old lady," said Serena, calmly,
"and your dogs aro lovoly."
A week passed, and ono morning
AyorB camo to Serena. "I'vo got to
go away," ho said, Boberly.
"Why?" demanded Serena.
"Bocause," his eyes sought tho
bluo lino of tho hills, "thero aro
things that I must do. But I want
you to tako care of tho dogs until
I come back, and keop tho room for
me perhaps tho Fates will bo good
to me, and let mo come again."
"Why" Serena's llttlo faco went
white, "of course y6u will como
ngnln."
"I can't tell her," Ayers said de
spairingly to Alvln Green that after
noon ns thoy went to tho train to
gether, "that I lovo her so much that
I mustn't stay. There's that girl out
west, you know."
"Do you lovo tho girl out wost?"
Alvln domnnded.
"It was a schoolboy and girl ar
rangement," Ayers explained. "Wo
wero college mates. And now wo
haven't a thing In common but I'm
In honor bound."
Alvln Greon held out hl3 hand as
they said good-by. "It's tough luck,"
his voice shook a llttlo, "but it's
best you should go away it wouldn't
do to lot Sorcna care."
But Serena did caro and as tho
days lengthened into weeks and no
word, except a perfunctory lino or
two, enclosing a generous check
for tho caro of tho dogs camo from
Aycrs, sho grow unllko her usual
merry self.
"But tho money has been a great
help," sho said to Alvln Green, as tho
old man sat with her in tho roso gar
den, "only I'd llko to know why ho
never camo back."
"It's llko this, dearie," said Alvln.
"Ho was In honor bound to another
girl. Ho didn't lovo her, but ho was
tied to her, and ho began to llko you
so well that thero was nothing to do
but go away."
Sorcna raised a transfigured llttlo
face. "Oh, do you think that he
cared?"
Alvln nodded.
"Then I think I can bear it bettor,"
whispered Sorona.
Suddenly thoro camo upon the quiet
air tho beat of a motor.
Serena sat up. "It's stopping at our
gate," she said, excitedly.
The dogs who had slept at her feet
rushed down with wild yelps of wel
come. "Oh," said Serena, as sho fol
lowed them, "oh, ho has como
back."
Her boarder camo toward her, with
outstretched hands. "Say you'ro glad
to see mo," he commanded, "and then
I'll tell you how glad I am to see you."
Alvln interrupted him quietly. "I've
told her," ho said, "that there's an
other girl."
"But thero Isn't." Ayer's.tono was
rapturous. "Sho has marrlod mar
ried another man and I'm free
frco to try to win you."
Heart's Desire of Baden-Powell.
In speaking of tho vital Import ol
tho Boy Scout movement to tho world,
President Colin H. Livingstone relat
ed a touching Incident which took
place at tho banquet given to General
Baden-Powell at the Hotel Astor. Sev
en or eight hundred guests, represent
lng tho prominent business and educa
tional interests of New York city, had
gathered thero to pay trlbuto to tho
distinguished guest, Thoro was a va
cant chair between General Powell
and Mr. LlvIngStono and. leaning over,
tho American suggested:
"Doesn't this splendid trlbuto to tho
Idea Inaplro you? Does It recall the
picture of Mafeklng?"
"I was Just thinking." said the gen
eral, slowly, "that if I could have my
heart's deslro Just now I would wish
that my dear old mothor might sit In
this vacant seat nnd look upon this
scene, which Inspires a feeling far
exceeding anything known In martial
pageantry. For hero are ''tho real
scouts and tho valiant men of tho fu
ture." National Magazine.
Great Work Done by Boys.
Painting Is not tho only art In
which masterpieces have been pro
duced by mero boys. Although it wns
not published until a year later, it Is
probable that Keats wrote his famous
Odo to Autumn in his sixteenth year,
and, Indeed, nil his five great odes,
among tho greatest in any language,
before ho attained legal manhood.
Ho died nt twenty-flvo, so that all t,he
mastorpleccs which came from, his
pen may bo regarded as the produc
tion of a boy.
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SOME STATISTICS.
If nil tho burnt fingers of today
wero on ono man, and ho wero to
striko them with n hammer whllo driv
ing a nail, tho yell ho would emit
would bo so loud that it would
waken tho oldest inhabitant of Saturn
from his midday nap, and tho sound
would pass tho noarost fixed Btar in
forty seconds from tho tlmo it left
tho parth.
If all tho regrets ovor tho money
wasted in fireworks wero to bo collect
ed In ono place they would mako an
nlr of gloom so thick that. tho sun
shine would not got through It for 110
years.
If all tho dogs to whoso tails fire
crackers wero tied today wero placed
in elnglo filo tho leading dog would bo
running through Bombay whllo tho
last dog would bo breaking for an
alley in New York.
If all tho hot air in. tho speeches do
llvered today wero collected It would
fill a tank eighty miles high and
ten miles wldo, and would bo sufficient
to heat a city of 200,000 Inhabitants
during tho coming winter.
If all tho coming romnn candles
shot off could bo mado into ono It
would bo tall enough to reach tho
moon and tho balls shot from It
would ponetrato tho Milky Way and
glanco off tho north polo to Jupiter,
but oven thon It would not bo big
enough or last long enough, for tho
averago small boy.
WILLIE SURVIVED.
Father's lost hla whiskers;
Coat's In nshes, too;
Noso Is In court plaster,
Ono eyo black and blue;
They cut his shirt off of him
To graft skin on his bad:,
For ho was showing Wllllo
Why his crackers wouldn't crack.
Uncle's In his bedroom,
Minus lots of skin;
Thumb and finger missing,
Splints, upon his shin;
They turned tho hoso upon him '
In time to Bavo his eyes,
For he was showing Willlo
Why his rockets wouldn't rlso.
Mother's feeling awful,
Moaning In distress;
Says It simply rulnod
Hack breadths of her dress;
She also lost her collar.
An eyebrow and a curl.
For sho wus showing Wllllo
Why his plnwhcels wouldn't whirl.
Grandpa goes on crutches
When ho goes at all
He collided with a
Roman cundle ball.
But what about young Willie?
When do they bury hint?
Why, Willie camo through safely
Unscathed In llfo or limb.
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AN OBJECT LESSON.
"Pcoplo aro careless," said tho man
with tho big firecracker In his hand.
"If thoy would oxorclso common
sense wo would hoar of less accidents
on tho Fourth."
Ho touched tho lighted end of his
cigar to tho fuse, and resumed:
"Thero is no danger in tho uso of
fireworks if thoso who , handle them
think of tho risk they aro running. I
havo shot off firecrackers slnco I was
old enough to striko n match, and nev
er even got a finger burned."
A smilo of recollection camo upon
IiIh face, and ho dropped his hand idly
to his sldo iwhilo ho said:
"I remember opco whon my Undo
Thomas camo to our houso on tho
Fourth. I was n smull boy at tho tlmo,
but I recall distinctly that wo had an
old toy cannon, and Undo Thomas In
sisted upon tolling us boys how to flro
It. Well, sir, he"
Whack! Bang! Wow!
Without apologizing for his haste,
tho man who had hold the firecracker
ran to a drug store, leaving his friend
musing upon tho necessity of being
careful.
WHY HE DID IT.
King Stranger My dear llttlo boy,
why do you tie thoso firecrackers to
tho tail or that dog?
Llttlo Boy Aw, he's nn English mas
tiff. HE KNEW IT.
Tho patriotic crowd, being enthused
by tho exorcises began alnglug tho
"Star-Spangled Banner." Soon every
body waB slnKlntr "turn to to to turn."
as Is usual, excopt ono man who lustily
sang every word of tho sonc to tho
end.
Later It was learned that he was a
foreigner.
he was acting Hkeamah who, never
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SHOP DISPLAYS IN HONGKONG
Articles of Dress or Personal Adorn
ment Shown on Wax Figures
Cause Chlneso to Wonder.
Several of the moro pretentious
Chlneso shops In Hongkong nro com
mcnclng to uso wax figures for dis
playing vnrlous nrtlclcs of dress or
personal adornment.
It has been a Btibject of considerable
wonder on tho pnrt of foreigners that
tho Chinese pcoplo havo evinced Bitch
n marked lntorost in wax figures dis
played In foreign establishments, snyB
an exchange. A hnlr-dresslng estab
lishment In Hongkong's principal re
tail thoroughfare has displayed sovoral
wax busts showing lato stylos In halr
drcsslng for somo tlmo, nnd thero 1b
scarcely a tlmo during tho plensant
days when thoro Is not a crowd of
Chlneso women, business men, cool
ies nnd all about tho windows of that
establishment.
Chlneso merchants In Hongkong's
Chlneso quarter who havo adopted this
Gazing at Wax Figure.
meaiiB of displaying goods hnvo dress
ed a wax manikin In a Chlneso girl's
costumo nnd aro thus presenting goods
llko toilet articles, patent modlclnes,
forolgn novoltlcs nid notions. Anothor
establishment has a wax flguro of a
girl in Chlneso costumo a flguro with
Chlneso features nnd made to resom
bio a Chlneso girl In all respects dis
playing a somewhat forolgnlzed model
Chinese gown In n somowhat forplgn
Ized Chinese bedroom Interior, a mod
el apartment designed to appeal to
wealthy Chinese with moro or Icbb
forolgn experience nnd Ideals.
MAKING A BASE BALL CURVE
Nebraska Man Invents Attachment
for Hand That Causes Sphere to
Take Deceptlvo Twist.
In describing a basoball curver, tho
invention of It. W. Jones of Lincoln,
Nob., tho Scientific American says:
Mr. Jonos provides mennu in this
cnBo readily attnchablo to tho hand
Baso Ball Curver.
for causing a ball to curvo whon
thrown from tho hand, A vacuum cup
Is hold in position by n band mado of
a sizo to fit a finger, but 1b preforably
mado of a slzo to fit two or moro
fingers so that tho cup may bo shifted
or adjusted to any position with re
spect to tho fingers. In this wny the
cup may bo adjusted nicely to any
point for giving n great or small
curve, or various klndB of curves.
Tho llluatrntlon showns a hand grasp
ing a ball having an embodiment of
tho Invention applied to tho hand arid
pressing against tho ball.
VIRGINIA REEL FOR YOUTHS
Known In England as Sir Roger do
Coverly, la Enjoyed by Old Peo
ple as Well as Youngsters.
At almost all children's pnrtlos
they finish up with n danco which In
America 1b called tho Virginia rod
and In England Sir Roger do Cover
ly. Grown people nro Just ns fond of
this dance aa tho youngsters, but it
naturally bolongs to tho chlldron, aa
the Idea of It was taken from a very
old children's gamo called tho shep
herdess, which Is still very popular
In Franco.
The children form n lino and then
the leader stands n llttlo to tho loft
and tho next child n little to tho right
and thoy raise their hands as high
as their heads and from a harrier,
which all tho aheop must pnss
.through. Tho next child In lino be
comes tho shopherdess nnd calls to
her little lambs to follow her through
tho barrier, which thoy do whllo sing
ing a llttlo French aong.
After the last uhcop has passed
safely under tho two chlldron that
formed tho barrier drop Into lino at
tho end, nnd the two nt tho head of
tho lino form tho next barrier and so
on, until overy child has had a turn
at being pnrt of tho barrlor for tho
others to pass under,
How He Came.
Teacher Who discovered America?
Bright Boy Columbus.
Teachor That'B right Now, how
did ho como to do it?
Bright ,JJoy He camo by water.
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MAKE-UP OF NEW ALPHABET
Chinese Scholars Devise List of Forty.
Two Letters Drawn From Dif
ferent Languages.
Reform Is In tho nlr In China. Tho
young Chlnso, educated In tho univer
sities of America or Europe aro no
longer content with tho characters in
which their language has beon written
for thousands of yenra, each character
ropresontlng an idea not a word and
thoro being about 80,000 of those.
They nro trying now to abolish theso
characters and to, replace them with
letters that will roprcsont sounds.
No other slnglo lauguago could offer
thorn a suitable alphabet, for thoro aro
sounds in their tongue which exist in
no othor.
Chow III Chit, Hocrotnry of th
Chlneso legation In Homo, has boen
dovotlng his tlmo rccontly to maklpg
up nn alphnbot Biiltablo for Chlnose.
Ho has beon asslstod by Messrs Wan
and Chou, sub-secrotarlos, and Slgnot
RIvotta dl Solonghollo, professor ol
Jnpaneso nnd Chlneso at tho Oriental
Institute of Naples, ono pt tho groat
CBt polyglots in tho world. '
Tho latter glvos this description ol
tho alphabet that has resulted from
their labors:
"To roprosent oxactly all tho sounds
of tho Chinese language" said ho, "wb
havo had to draw upon almost all ex
isting alphabets. The alphabet wo
havo composed consists of 42 charac
ters, of which 23 aro vowels and 19
aro consounnts.
"Of tho vowels, four aro taken from
tho Grook, four from tho Russian, flvo
from tho Latin, ono from tho Chlneso;
of tho nlno others, two nro what wo
call 'modified' or 'prolonged' and sev
en nro reversed.
"Of tho consonants, 14 aro taken
from tho Latin, threo from tho Rus
sian and two from the Grook."
With these letters It is possible to
write exactly all tho wordB of tho
spokon Chlneso lnnguago that is un
derstood from ono end of tho now re
public to tho other.
DEWEY'S DOG IN BAD MIX-UP
Chewed Up Two Pairs of Admiral
EvanB' Trousers and Destroyed
Copy of Navy Regulations.
Admiral Dowoy had an English bull
dog of which ho was very proud. So
marked was his affection for tho dog
that an atmosphoro of "lovo me, love
my dog" had sprung up around the
admiral and the canlno. It Is further
roported that tho animal camo near
causing trouble between tho head 6f
tho navy and tho lato "Fighting Bob"
EvanB.
Admiral Dowey whllo on a tour ol
Inspection when ho was In command
of tho Pacific squadron took tho dog
along with him. Ho lost sight of his
pot on Evans' Bhlp, but In a fow mln
tttos saw him hurled skywnrd from tho
compnnlonway ns if shot from a cata-
pault. With blood In hU eye, sayB tho
Now York World, Admiral Dowoy
ruBhod ovor to see tho reasou for tho
sudden ascent, surmising correctly
Dewey's Dog Hurled Skyward.
that some ono had kicked the drier.
Ho saw "Fighting Bob" at tho foot of
tho stops.
"Sir!" roared tho admiral. "What do
you mean by kicking my dog?"
"Sir." roplled Evans In rotum. "I'd
havo kicked that dog If ho had beon.
tho property of tho president of tho
United States! Ho chowed tho Iocs
off of two pairs of $15 trousora and
destroyed an edition do luxe of tho
navy regulations."
Dowey saw tho point and nald for
now uniform trousers.
Tact.
"How did you got your son to atudv
arithmetic? I thought you said a few
weeks ago that that study was ttosl
tloly distasteful to him."
"So It annoarod to mo. But I flnnilv
told him that arithmetic was useful If
ho wanted to flguro tho bnttlng and
Holding averages of tho ball playors.
and now wo can't keen him nwnv from
hla multiplication and division tables."
Only One Nose.
Sunday School Teachor Why, Wll
llo Wilson! Fighting again? Didn't
lust Sunday's lesson teach that whon
you aro struck on ono cheek you
ought to turn tho othor to tlie striker?
Wllllo Yes-m; but ho hit mo od tho
noso, an' I'vo only got ono.
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