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ASEABCIirOIt AX IIEI R WHERE THE RIGHTFUL. OWNER OF $15,000,008 SECRETED HIMSELF. Xhm QMT CiM f Partd TatU-m. ha YviaslJUiljr Bmn Kbl Ckmm, Hr VxhI Vu FiM4 Oat to Qm After Him AlJ-t Wm Left. (Copjrrifbt, li by Charlai B. LnrU.) ' When Darid B. Tottwi, of Birmingham, XngUnd. passed away in the vriiry jghth J'ejw of his he left 13.000.nj0 he bind Lim, ever; pound of which waa l h lo bi aua Dick, Tba wife had been drad nany eara, and Dick had beep in Aus tralia (or (oar or five. Indeed, (or the Inst year and half ha had not 'been beard from, directly or indireotlr, and tha bust the IMnuinKbara olicitore could do was to advertiw (ur hiia in the Sydney and Mel bourne paper. Dick Tottvu waa a queer young man. fie waa about twenty -(our wben he landed lo Australia. Nature had not balnnvl bia head just right. He was given to tit and mood, and no one liked bim. He U-ft borne in a buif, as he hod done on aerrnl ether occasious, and he made thing aboard the steamer very uncomfortable (or the ether paiMumxers on the voyage out. He picked o many rows that the captain had to threaten him with irons to tame him 1 down. He had not been in Sydney for hours when he was arrested (or striking a pedestrian who accidentally jostled him on a corner. After a (ew day be went oK up the country, and later on was lost sight of by every one who knew hint. Wben the news came out to the colony that Dick Totten was wanted as the heir to H3,0UU,00O there was something of a stir. When, three months later, it was adver tised that a reward of $3,300 Mould be laid to any one locating him there was only one man in all Australia who could come anywhere near it. That man was John Faulkner, of Melbourne. He had been a sailor and a ship carpenter, but having lost a leg be had been compelled to "job around" and pick up the best living lie could. It was strange information he hud to give. It seemed that young ToKen be came disgusted with Australia after travel ing about (or a couple of years, aud de cided to retire (rom that colony und the world as well. One day be appeared at Melbourne aud began searching for a small sailing craft. In this search he ran auross Faulkner, who knew of a ktnall sloop for sale. Totten' first idea was to gooit ulouc, but when he found that no craft which one man could nmnuge would be safe a mile oil' the coast he cuuugcd his plans. The sloop in question coulde,banUlcd by a crew of three. He bought her and engaged l'anlk tux and a seooud man named Hons. He gave his owi name as White and his des tination as e Coral sea (or u pleasure cruise. - The two men very soon concluded Ihut Totten (White) was a little oil, but as h promised good wages aud appeared able to manage business matters tiiey decided to stick by bim. It was part mid parcel of the agreement that they should not men tion a word to outsiders, and when the loop left not a man iu Melbourne knew anything of her plans. She was well pro visioned, mid Totten took u board a stock of garden seeds, a quantity of lumber, hardware, tools aud extra clothing. Among bis purchases was one of $o0u worth of books. He also took with bim six gouts, six pigs, two dozen hens, a dozen ducks, a cage of rabbits, two dozen pigeons, a couple of dogs and a parrot. The sloop took her departure at uight and several days later was sighted at sea. According to the story told by r aulkner, ana every body believed tu his veracity, the sloop stood to the north until she reached the New Guinea islands. If you have a chart of that sea you will find its northern border composed ot islands, great and small. They number ut least 500 In all, ranging from a mere dot of land, across which you can throw a pebble, to islands Inhabited by 2,000 natives. For many days the sloop was dodging about among the islands to find one to suit Totten. He at length selected one about two miles long by one mile in breadth. A portion of it was covered with forest and the remainder was a fertile plain. There was a large spring of fresh water, no signs of inhabitants, and. when he bad inspected it he announced his intention Of entering upon a Crusoe life. The cargo of the sloop was unloaded, the goods carried up to a pot which he selected for the site of his bouse and the two men were with hhn (or a week or more. When everything was safely landed he gave them their wages (or six months, presented Faulkner with-, the sloop and ordered them off. That it might not be easy to find' him should search be made, he took away the sloop's compass. The men hesitated to go with out it, but he became so enraged that they (eared violence and put to sea. , Fortunately when about one hundred miles to the south they came across a trad ing vessel, which sold them a compass aud gave them a chart aud the course, mid after a great deal of knocking about they reached Melbourne. That is, Fuulkner did. but Ross died at sea three days before - of some strange fever. Fortunately for the survivor he had spoken a ship, and she was lying to beside him when his mute died. Otherwise it might have been sus pected that he had made way with him. Faulkner had nothing to say on his re turn, and it was only when he became convinced that White was Totten, and the missing heir that he came forward and told the whole story. By the time a Melbourne solicitor had been empowered to send out a searching expedition a full two years had elapsed. There was a wait to find the right sort of crslt ana another for the bad weather sea son to pass, auu wtien the search was finally entered upon Dick Totten hud beeu playing Kobnisou Crusoe for over two years and a hull'. The craft chartered for the search was a topsail schooner of 300 tons burden, carrying a crew of seven men, and the solicitor sent one of his clerks along as his legal representative. As was mate of the craft I am speaking by the card in giving you all these particu- lan. Tlje captain was a man named Mon roe, who had long been in the New Zealand trade, i aulkner was taken along as cook, and our departure created quite a stir throughout Australia. It is probably the onlyase on record where, a ship had to be chartered to search the ocean (or the sole heir to an enormous fortune. lou will figure that it was a very easy thing to steer for the Coral sea and have Faulkner point out the islaud on which Totten had taken up bis abode, but we found difficulties from the very outset. . Totten had a chart of the Coaal sea, but h had not allowed Faulkner to inspect it. The latter, therefore, could not say what islands had first been sighted. He could not be certain of the course steered after ward. ' Our only way was to visit and search everyone, unless we happened to Jail in with natives or a trader who could give ui definite information. We steered a course tor Louisiode archi pelago, which is about opposite and to the east of Cape York, on the mainland. Here within an an ot thirty square railes are no less than twenty-two small islands. In some cases the channels be tween them were navigable; in others we bad to send in the yawL Each and every Island was explored, but without giving iu ,nv tidines. One island looked like an other to Faulkner, and we soon found that he was all upside down. When we had finished with the archipelago we steered to the northeast and picked up island after island without scoring a point. At the Woodlark group we came across a trading schooner which gave us a bit of informa tion. Her captain reported that be had lfc attempted to land on a small island about sixty tnilrtl to the east to replenish his wa- trr ck, hot had Wo fired" npon by some one imYled in the bast.es and driven off. That wa eighteen month previously. U:s dt-wription uf the Maod tallied pretty well with Faulkner's and we at ouce set out in earth. iT.tr;m i information as to location and dit4oee was ind'timt, and while sail- inn to the ra we stopped to examine every oniuhubited Lland which promised HlcN. One day in searebmg an island which Ftkner was almost sure was the i Totteu had been left on. I ran across old camp which bad previously been ecu pied by several men for some days or weeks. They bad built rude shelters cut down many small tree (or firewood, and there were many relics of their stay. I found some things which at once added a very serious face to our further search. I picked up three buoks which had doubtless been of the number carried out by Totten, and also found some seeds, three or four pieces ( crockery and a hand mirror. As soon as Faulkner bad landed he was sure he hud never set foot iu that place before. We explored the island (roin side to side and f rem end to end, and it was (ouud lo be anything but the one the sailor bad lived on (or a week or ten days. We nowfeared the worst. On all the in habited islands of the Coral sea is a class of men called "beachcombers.' Tbey are sailors, traders, wreckers, thieves and worse. Anything which can be curried oil is their prey, and half a dozen of them often band together and take possession of some small island. If these men hud discovered Totten on hi Uluud home they would not I hesitate at murder in order to secure his possessions. The relics found in the old camp seemed to prove robbery at least. Totten hiul no boat aud could not leave his Island. It uny one had visited him he wonld not have preseuted them with the books, as the uncut leaves proved he hud uot yet perused them himself. It was al most without hope that we contiuued the search. Ou riie fourth day ufter we struck the right island at lust, though Fuulkner de clared he bad never set eyes on it before. This was because he hud approached it (rom the south with the sloop, whereas we now approached it front the northern side. e did uot know it to be the right island until some time after lauding. The schooner was obliged to cast anchor about half a mile off the beach, aud I then weut ashore with tlie mea. A heavy growth of trees and bushes came right down to high watermark. The three of us set out to cross to the south side, and we had made our way for about hulf a mile when we caught sight of a gout aud also heard a rooster crow. A tew minutes later a dog barked aud then we knew for certain that we had at last found the hldiug place of the missing heir. The dog presently ap peared to view, but he looked wild and half starved, and with all our coaxing we could not bring him nearer. . "If the man was here, that dog would not look and act that way," observed one of the men. I had the same thought, and believing that we were on the point of making some sad discovery, I ordered a return to the beach and had the men pull oil (or the cuptaiu and the lawyer's clerk. There were five of us, and we struck into the forest again. Wheu we reached its south ern edge we saw a rude board shunty a few rods before us, the door of which was open and swinging iu the breeze. Some fowls were walking about, and wo could heat pigs grunting iu the bushes. The dog which we hud seen before now saluted us from a mass of rocks surrounding the spring. Ou the lawn around the bouse were scat tered leaves of books, articles of clothing, broken boxes and many bottles, and us we looked about the captain said: "The beachcombers have-been here, and we shall find only the bones ot the man we seek!" We finst moved down to the house. It contained only one room, and the floor was litered with books, bottles, seeds and vari ous other things. Boxes had been broken open and their couteuts emptied, but amid all the confusion it could be seed that nothing of real value was left. In and about the door were a score of bullet holes. "We shall find it down there!" said the captain as he pointed to the rocks, and we followed him. The dog made a great fuss as we drew near, and we knew why. He .was guarding the dead body of his master. jno, it was not a ueau oouy, but rather a skeleton. The flesh was not yet all gone. but what was left had shriveled and dried and looked like leather. It lay at full length, aud there was a bullet hole through the center of the forehead. Twenty rods to the south, iu the edge ot a thicket, we fouad two mora skeletons. These men hud belonged to the party making the attack. We figured it out that Totten hud first been attacked iu his house. He had a good supply of firearms and ammunition. As he was doubtless un able to return the lire of his assailants from the shauty he had charged out and ensconced himself among the rocks. How long he had srood them oil no one could say, but he hud mudu a good fight of it be fore being struck down. hen we left the lsluud we took with us the skeleton and everything bearing on the case, w e then spent six weeks cruising about in search of a clew to the murderers. We ran across a trader who had seeit sin beuchcombers in a craft in the neighbor hood ot the island. We found a native with one ot Totten's guns, which he had bought of a white man. Y e found men who had seen the other dog. We found some more of the books aud a medicine chest, but we failed to lay hands on the guilty parties, and to this day they have gone unpunished for that dastardly crime. As near as wo could fix it the muvdor took place at least a year before we reached the island. Our search proved the death of the legal air, and the millions ot money weut to the next of kin, who had been old Totten's bitterest enemies for many long years. THREE EAGLE FEATHERS. As ladls Who I. Hind Death Without tanning It. We were strung out on the crest of the Little Rvjcky mountain, between the Mis souri aud the Milk river, in northern Montana. There were twenty-three of us, all prospectors, and though we knew In dian to be about there had been no cause (or alarm (or s couple of days. It waa S o'clock in the afternoon, and some of the men were wandering about, while others rested, wben a volley was suddenly fired at our backs that is, from the east. Not a man was bit, though two had boles "Shot through their bats. In ten teonwla we were all down and crawling among the bowlders to the west, and the smoke from the five or six rifles floated upward and drove away, and we bad seen no further sign of the prewnce of the red men. Like serpents, one by one we crept quietly awny until it wa safe lo stand up, and tbeu "Old Dave," as we called htm, wbipered to the main body to proceed along the route to a spot he described and await his coming. We sank down behind a great bowlder the two of us and presently we were alone. It was a summer afternoon, with no breeze stirring.. The mountain cricket generally chirps by day as well as bf night, but the heat seemed to have wearied him at this hour. Not a bird flew about not a living thing was beard to move. But (or the bright sunshine we would have thought ourselves buried lix feel uu- der ground. "Keep yer eyes open: The varmints will foller!" whispered the old man, aud we began watching and waiting. Five minutes ten fifteen! We were facing the east. The old man peered out from the north side of the bowlder, I from the south. I did not realize bow the sus pense was affecting me until he pulled me Luck behind the rock and whispered: "Consarn ye, yer teeth are playin a tune, and them reds kin hear yo breathin 200 feet away!" I put down my gun, gripped the rock with both hands and thus forced myself Into something like calmness. We had been there full twenty minutes when I suddenly caught a glimpse of something moving anions the rocks and bushes. 1 looked again and again before I made out that tha object or objects were t-'.iree eagle feathers worn as'a plume in the headdress of an Indian. His head und body were hidden from sight as he crept forward, but a little of each feather could be seen. I touched the old man with my left hand. He turned his face toward me and uttered a low "S-s-s-h!" He bad made out the feath ers before I did, and already bad his rifle up. The redskin was not advancing upon us, but beading to the northwest, diag onally away from us. He must have sus pected that danger lurked behind some of the bowlders, but there were so many that he bad to take chances. He moved so slowly that I was presently perspiring and trembling under the strain. I could see no one following him, and that seemed to prove that he had either Yoluntered as a scout or that his companions had given up and he was pursuing us alone, goaded on by the hope that he mi?ht secure a scalp. The feathers were almost opposite us to the north, and not over forty feet nway when the Indian raised Lis head for a look beyond him. As he did so the old man's rifle cracked and the head disappeared. There wasn't the slightest movement not a sound save the report of the rilie, "He got It jist for'd of the ear, and never knew what hurt himl" whispered the guide. We waited a long five minutes to see what might follow and then crept over to the spot. The warrior lay flat on his stomach, with his chin cn a rock and his arms stretched out in front of him, just as he had used them to pull himself along. He had clinched his fingers, but death had come so swiftly that he had not even straightened his legs. We plucked the feathers from the beaded piece of buckskin forming his headdress, secured the rifle lying beside him and crept away aud left the fast stiffening body to those who might come after companions or vultures. M. Quad; Columbui' raaalon for Gold. Columbus found the natives of America full of the passion for gold. The glittering particles had for them an irresistible at traction, as to' so many ot what are called the educated races. They searched in the rivers and sands for gold, and when they had found it hung it in their ears and noses. Sometimes the more highly culti- ated beat it into plates, which they fas- tuned around their necks. It was theirchief and almost only ornament, almost their enly dress; they used, too, paint, feaHiers and strings of pearls. Tha universality of this strange passion for the ductile metal in civilized and savage man is without nn explanation: it is natural. We are tol that there hre ants that heap together gli! tering particles of precious or colored stones; it is their instinct. In Columbus the passion raged with a iolence seldom known. lie dreamed of golden palaces, heaps of treasure, and mines teeming with endless wealth. His cry was everywhere for gold. Every mo ment, in his fierce avarice, he would fancy himself on the brink of boundless opu lence; he was always about to seize the treasures of the east painted by Marco Polo and Mandeville. "Gold," he wrote to the king and queen, "is the most valuable thing in the world; it rescues souls from purgatory and restores them to the joys of paradise." Eugeue Lawrence in Harper's. Eucmie of the Oralis Outiing. The tradition of the Dyaks is that there is no animal in the jungle that dare attack the orausr outang except the python and the crocodile. At times, when there is no fruit obtaiuable in the jungle, the orang outang wanders down to the rivers to search for palm shoots along their banks, Then it Is the Dvaks relate how the wily crocodile will sometimes try and seize by the leg and drag It under the water and into the slimy mud below, but the oiang outang, according to their accounts, soon gets the best of the struggle, aud flic croco dile is either beaten to death with its powerful arms and feet or toru to piees. Ilut, on the other hand, it isscldom able to kill the python, which, vith4U aeadly em brace, soon puts an end to the great man like ape or Uomeo. Jt.xcuange. The Garden of Eden. "I know you will like the house." re marked the real estate agent. ' "The coun try is perfectly healthy." Indeed, replied the prospective pur chaser. "Oh, yes, and no flies." "So?" "Good water." "Ah!" "Gas." "Oh!" "No electric lights." "Um-m!" "Trains every twenty minutes and al ways on time." 1 1 "Hal" "Low taxes." "Ho!" "No unpleasant neighbors." "Humph!" "No mosquitoes. But why do you weep V "tse-because," sobbed the man, "I didn't know I was dead and I suddenly f-find I've got to h-hcaven." Harper's Bazar. FOE TI1E Y013G I0LKS. INTERESTING INFORMATION FOR THE YOUNG. A LlttU Duclc Story Bruin and ths Butcher How They Took Up tri Cresn Th fealnt and the Onions Introductions. Introductions. "She is the dearest creature in the ro?ld," a young girl was explaining to her aunt; "bo good, loving and gener ous; but I always have cold chills when she visits me, because in com pany the is just, a dead weight. I cannot introduce her and leave her; I must stand by and hold her up. In her own home she is the support of the whole family, but society acts like acid upon her backbone and leaves her limp. Do befriend her, Aunt Agnes, and help her out of herself." "Maud is actuallv speaking in sen tences instead of n.onosyllables," the giri whispered to her aunt a few even ings later, "now nave you uewitcnea her?" "It was simple enough. I introduc ed Charlie Duulap to her, telling her beforehand that he was very shy and ill at ease; but that there was one subject, amateur photography, over which he forgot his bashmtness; that if she could get him to explain to her the best way of mixing developer, he would be intensely happy, and I should be relieved from all charge of hint. Thinking to help me, finding a person shyer than herself, and having a subject to begin upon, seems to have worked the charm." A littlejater Agnes beckoned Maud to her side and presented her to a whitehaired centVvmnn. "Professor More is a relic-hunter, and I have been telling him about that treasure of a tomahawk which you found. He thinks he has one to match it, but I will leave you to settle the question between, yourselves." "Maud, came again Aunt Agnes s sweet voiee, just as Indian relics had exhausted themselves, "Mrs. Lewis wishes to see my palms. You must not reveal my ignorance, however, by letting her know that they would nil have died if you Jtad not come to their rescue. As -Aunt Agnes turned away she smiled to hear the elder lady say to the younger, "How fortunate I am. Now you will tell nie how to treat my poor palms." "it lias ueen a ueiigntiui party, th young guest exclaimed, as the two girls kissed Aunt Agnes good-inght. I did not onee find myself" as Howells says, 'cast away in a corner clinging to a water-color on the wall witu a show of interest that would melt a heart of stone." You were lovely to supply me so with topics." "Hereafter I shall be courageous enough to try to find some lor myself, or I will search for a Charley Dunlap and ask him the name of his hobby. It flashed over me to-nigbt Grace, that I had been selfish heretofore, in not being more social with your friends, but I did n6 know how to begin." It is true that no one in society has to practise unselfishness more than the timid and retiring person. It is also time that the easy talker owes support and stimulation to her less sophisticated friends; and in no way can she confer it more gracefully than in bringing forward subjects iu which she knows they are interested. It is as much her duty to do so, as for the hostess to provide viands which will tempt the appetites of her guests. Youth's Companion. A Luxury That la Free. The liest thoughts and fbe purest mo ments of a man's life may ofteu come to him when he is afoot. The regular and genlle exertion of the movement gives the body just enough occupation to keep it out of the way of the mind. The heart acts fully, but uot to excess; the lungs thoughly-aerate the blood, without besom ing overcharged; the other organs dis charge their functions with ease aud light- someness. The little ikicts of the skin breathe forth their moisture; the muscles glow aud expand; aud the brain, flndiug all well In the domain of its dependencies, turns to its affairs with joyous freedom and alacrity. At evening, what an appe tite: At night, what sleep! Were any magioRl physician to invent an elixir which 'imparted a tithe of the vivifying virtue of a day's walk iu the open air, he would be the Croesus ot pill- makers. How much would we give for a bottle of his concoction? And yet we may walk for nothing, and we may begin today, and the more we take of rtie prescription the more solid and lasting will be the bene fit we derive from it. J uiiit-i Hawthorne iu Lippiiicott's. Suburban Life. Mr. Suburb Good morning, Mr. Da Villa. I wish to ask a favor of you. Mr. l)e Villa (wealthy resident) Cer tainly, Mr. Suburb. What is It? Sir. Suburb I have called to ask you to send your carriage and coachman to meet me at the 6 o'clock train this afternoon, and I would like the coachman to be iu his finest livery, and I hope he will us tha silver plaled harness. Mr. He Villa-Eh? Mr. Suburb Yes. I will arrive on that tKiiu with a new servant girl, and I would like to make a good impression. New York Weekly. The effects of advertising iu Philadelphia are fully as remarkable as in other places. A Philadelphia rhymer says: Miss Phillis, with very slim parse. Advertised as professional sure; A pstieot with irelrh She nursed bock te aenlth; Now they're married fsr beMer or werse. Not only is Miss Phillis, by her shpewd ness in advertising, benefited, but an opening Is made for another good girl In the ranks of the professional nurses. LouisviHe Courier-Journal. A Little Duck Story. The old story of Bruce and the spi der is Iveil known, but how little has been noted of the untiring persever ance of others of the lower animals. A curious incident, having a valuable lesson for impatient human beings was offered by a party of ducklings on the seasliore. They were very young, but they had a mind for a swim, and made no doubt of being able to accom plish it on a body of water so large and so tempting as the Atlantic Ocean. It was a lovely day and the tide was coming in with hardly a ripple. Every few minutes a wavelet not more than an jnch or two high swept .gently up on the bead, then drew back into the bosom of the ocean, after the manner of sea waves. With all the dignity of the duck family this little party waddled down flie beach. They were in no haste, the day was before them, the sun was warm, they had bee fed, and down they went in the most leisurely way. Just as they reached the water the gentle wave ran in, lifted the pretty little yellow ducklings off their faet and swept them all far up on the sanu, .then as suddenly turned, left them there high and dry and went out to sea again. The ducklings, not at all discencern ed by this shabby joke of the wave let, gathered themselves together and started again down the beach iu good order as before. Again the saucy wavelet came up to meet them, and again they were carefully set down far-tip on the shore. Discouraged, you think, and walked off in a huff? By no means? They wanted to go into tjte water, and into tjie water they would go. Again they started down the bank, just as digni fied, just as composed, just as earnest about it as if they had found no dif ficulties in the way. Of course they met the same fate, but they did not give it up. Whether they ver really get into the sea does not appear, but as long as the observer had the patience to wart t he same game was in progress the little wave earned them all far up on the beach, and they all waddled back again, with -the sole purpose of going to tak-e a ewim. Brain and the Butcher. An organ-grinder who was travel ling through th west of England, ac companied by a tame brown bear, which he had trained to dance, stop ped at a farmer's house late one after noon, aud after greatly amusing the family by his performance for his or gan was a fine one and the bear very docile and intelligent he had no difll culty.in obtaining permission to stay all night. He himself was given a bed in the boy's room, but his furry com panion had to ba content with a snug corner in the barn. A little after midnight there came such alarminz noises from the barn, which was only a few pares away, as to waken everybody in tj.e house. Frantic ulirieks of "Help! Help!! Mur der! !!" and sounds of a strong man strnzgling desperately for dear life, is ud out upon the stil! uight air. Hurriedly drawing on some clothes, the farmer snatched up a lantern, and, followed by the organ-grinder, hastened tb the barn. On the doors being thrown open, tha rays of the lantern revealed a large man engaged in a wrestling match with the bear, from whose mighty embrace he was vainly endeavoring to esape. As the bear was muzzled and had no claws to speak f, his victim stood in no danger of serious injury. But his po sition was alarming enough, notwith standing, and he implored the farmer to come to his rescue. Pivining, however that this mid night viekor's mission was adishonest one, for which he deserved to' be well punished, the rgan-grinder called out to Ids. pet, "Hug him, Jack! hug him!" and the bear, evidently enjoying the sport, continued to squeeze the man unmercifully, until the farmer, thinkingthe rogue had suf fered sulScieutly, got the bear's own.r to command his release. It turned out that Bruin's captive was a rascally butcher who had come to steal a fine calf. In the darkness lie stumbled over the bear, and was at once made prisoner. The farmer was bo delighted at the animal's con duct that he feasted him upon the bet in the larder, and gave his mas ter a sovereign as he was leaving. Frisky. "There! What w ill you children get next?" That was what mamma said when Ray and I carried Frisky home. What was he? Why, Frisky was a little weasel, just as cute and cunning as a weasel can be. Mr. Brown killed the mother, and found four poor little babies in nest near by. He had killed three of them when Ray and I got there, but we begged so hard that he gave us the other one, mid by what mamma said, she didn't think much of weasels. "Don't let him out among your niother's.hens." That was what Mr. Brown had said, and I guss that was what she thought. Well, Frisky grew fait, and was bo cunning! He would lap milk from a saucer, and wasn't a bit afraid. The cat didn't like him very well, but they soon agreed to let each other alone, and they did. One day papa brought home some very nire Plymouth Rock hens. I don't want to tell -you how much lie paid for them, although I remember very well, and for fear I may forget, papa tells me of it very often. We meant to keep Frisky away from the barn, indeed we did, but he got out one night, and in the morning every one of those nice Plymouth Rock hens were dead, and Frisky was curled up in a hen's nest fast asleep. "It was surely him!" papa said very sternly, as he looked at mam ma. "There isn't a doubt of it," said mamma, as she looked at papa. Ray and I looked at each other, but we never said a word as we ran up into the attic and shut the door. When we came down papa was gone so was Frisky! How They Took Up the Green. Another curious thing is that it is more than probable that the Irish preference for the color green for their Hag and sashes arose from a mistake among those who had lost a thorough knowledge of llie old Irish language. The sun, in Irish, is called by a word pronounced like our word "gpeen;" and it is likely that the Irish fondness for that color arose from the word's exact likeness in sound to their word for the sun. In the same way, when we talk abViut greenhouses, we think they are called so because the plants are kept green in them during the winter. Yet it is far' more probable that "green" here is the Irish word, meaning not the color, but the sun; because greenhouses are built so as to catch the suns rays, and store them up while it is hidden by clouds, as happens more than half the tinw in ahowery Ireland. St. Nicholas. WHERE DO YOU BUY DRY GOODS? We Sell to all for Cash and to All for the Same Low Price. "We guarantee the price ou every arti cle in our store and will refund the mon- xXey to those who think they have paid too much. If that is the way tou like to do business we want your trade. We want those who cannot call at the store to send for samples. 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