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Boy's Honesty.
By Luetic Butler, Aci d 11 Jcana, Atwood,
Roy Campbell had to papers
after school to help earn a living for
his invalid mother and himself. He
had a bii; sister who worked out and
gave half her wages every week for
the support of her mother. But this
did not go far. It was all gone by
the end of the week. About Christ
inas time matters became worse.
Hii mother grew suddenly ill and as
they didn't have any money to pay
a physician she grew worse.
Roy became desperate. If he did
not get some, money his mother
would die. He left school and
found employment as a telephone
boy in a large store.
One day as he was cleaning and
dusting the counter he lifted up
some papers and underneath was a
$10 hill, and written on it were the
words, "A Xmas present to the
clerk who needs it most."
The temptation to keep it was
strong, but he took it to his em
plover.
Vhen the manager looked over
the names of his clerks he decided
Rov needed it most and as a reward
of his honesty he added $5 more to
hit pay check Saturday. In all it uas
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Rqy mother grew strong again
for (he cause of her invalidism was
removed 'by the physician free A
charge when he learned how 'poor
they were.
Today Koy Is a famous physician
rioted for his charity which he says
he gives out of gratefulness to the
doctor who saved his mother's life.
(Honorable Mention.)
My Little Friend.
By StU Gould, Aged 11 Yeafi. toons,
Neb.
On bright morning in August,
the) sun was shining, and it made it
very hot out of doors. I put my sun
bonnet on and a pail on my arm and
started on my way to the woods ip
get some berries. While I was busy
picking berries I heard something
behind me; I looked around and
there was a little kitten; It was
black and white. . The poor little
pet had gotten its leg hurt some
way. So I finished picking' my
berries and started with my little
pet for home. When I got home I
told mamma where -I found it. She
told me to feed it some milk, so I
did. Afterwards I fed It every morn
ing and night, aud it soon got fat
and also would catch mice. One
day about a month after I had found
it, it disappeared. I looked all over
for it, but never could find it. I felt
very sorry it .went away because it
had gotten very tame and I thought
lots of my dear little friend.
Snookums.
By Salt Irrln, Ar?d 11 Teari, Broken
low, Neb.
When I was about 7 years old
my cousin and I lived in the same
town. My cousin is a boy and his
name (s Durward. One day he and
I wefe walking down the street and
we saw a kitten. It was a pretty
Child Ruler of Two Nations
Henry VI Kec&me King of England and France When Littk More than a Baby and
- ' War Followed Between thd Two Nttiona. f
Henry VI was born while King
Henry V, his father, was at war in
France. The news of the birth of a
male heir reached the king one
cold December da.v, and he was re
joiced that the thrones of England
and France should be united through
his child for the mother of Henry
V wss Catherine f France.
The king went to Paris to meet
his queen and the child for she
had journeyed from Windsor castle,
in England to f resent the prince
to the rulers of France. Thus littte
Henry, scarcely nine months old,
wss declared the future king of
England and the heir apparent to
the throne of France.
A few months after this ceremony,
while taking part in battle, the king
became ill and, died. 'so the queen
and baby Henry never again saw
Henry V. Before the mourning
cortege reached the coast of France,
where the body was to be conveyed
tl England, news came that Charles
VI of France was also dead. Thus
a feahe, not ten months old, was
proclaimed king of two great
nations. But the people had to
have rulers, so the duke of Bedford
wss chosen as regent of France,
while Humphrey, duke of Glou
cester, was selected as lord protec
tor of England. Queen Catherine
undertook the care and training of
her eon.
Henry was reared with great care
and wisdom until he was 9 years
old, when he was crowned at West
minster Abbev. The English people
accepted Henry a? their king, bull
the t rench rebelled at having turn
their ruler, so they started a war
to make Charles VH king of
France. It was during the days
when France was on the verge of
being annexed as a province of
England that a little country maid.
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gray one so we decided to keep it.
Durward had a dog named Rex, so he
couldn't keep it and I was very
glad. Now Snookums could hot do
many trick One day he was taken
very ill anct a few days after that
mother and I Went away to spend
the afternoon. When we came back
Snookums was dead. We buried
him in the garden.
A'Happy Christmas.
By Ethal Moor, Aged 10 tear. Fairmont
. Neb-
One Christmas in France was
spent in very different way from
very many others. Pierre was
a little French boy. He knew
Christmas would soon come and
was wondering what hi9 .present
would be. His parents wer very
poor, his father Was in the army
and his mother had to work for
what they had to eat.
On Christmas l'ierre was very
sad. He had had nothing to eat for
two day. Christmas morning
l'ierre looked out of the window
and saw a man coming toward their
house. As he came nearer he saw it
was an American soldier. When
he came in he gave them a basket
of food, which the, were careful
w.th, sijd I don't think l'ierre for
got it very soon.
A Good Trick on Mother.
By Allot Anderson, Aired 13 Years, Oak
land, Neb,
Dear Busy Bees: I have riot
written for So long, and now 1
thought 1 would write a story about
what my sister and I got for moth
er. Last Friday we butchered
a hog, and on Saturday mother was
handling the meat, so she told me
not to scrub the kitchen floor be
cause it would look just as bad by
night. So I cleaned the other rooms
and let the kitchen go. When night
came my sister and I made up our
minds that we would go down and
scrub the floor after mother had
gone to bed.
When night csme we did the
dishes early and went upstairs. We
waited until mother had gone to bed
and then we took oft our shoes and
went downstairs as quietly as we
could. When we went downstairs
it was dark as in a cave. But 1 got
some matches and , lit the lamp.
Then we got the pail and some
water. Soon we had the kitchen
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Joan of Arc, rode to fte court of
Charles and inspired the people to
save her country for itself.
War waxed fiercely then between
the French and the English, but the
latter people won, and on December
2. 1431, King Henry rode victorious
into his second kingdom. But the
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tempt Virginia as much as good fairy story or one about the Indians who roamed our land so many,
many years ago.
and pantry floor scrubbed. Mother
was so surprised the next morning,
for she did not think we could do it
without being heard. .
Peace,
By Orval T. Hansen, Aged 12 Teara, Ken
Hard, Neb.
There now is peace
And the great wa,r did finally cease
Now the liberty bells can ring again
That the war is at an end.
Soon out boys will be back home
And not be over there W roam
Between the wounded ones each day
And the suffering all the way.
Now out boys will come with glory
Each one with a big, long story
To tell their own old folks behino
Of their journey to the Rhine.
So nOw that the war is all gone
over,
Let's s'l be happy as our Rover
But. give three cheers for our Old
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French bided their time iiet3y.
The unrest grew until once more the
two-nations were at war. Then it
was that peace was offered the
French by having Henry marry a
French princess, but they refused,
and .Henry married Margaret,
daughter of the king of Sicily.
Busy Bee is
How r Many Children Know the
Value of 'Birds in Nebraska ?
Birds benefit agriculture by de
stroying caterpillars and other pests.
The bird population can be in
creased greatly by simple means,
one of which is the setting out of
nesting homes, not so much to fa
cilitate nesting as to give protec
tion from cats, snakes and other en
eniies, and a refuge from extreme
cold. The good done thus lias been
made so clear that the farmers in
some parts of Europe have set out
nesting homei of their own initia
tive. Much information on this sub
ject is given in a little book, "How
to Attract and Frotect Wild Birds"
(National Association of Audubon
Societies).
In order to have any appreciable
economic ffect, nesting homes must
be set Dtit, not in tens, but in hun
dreds of thousands, if not in mil
lions, and hence they must be made
cheaply enough to permit this. The
experiments of the Bedford Audu
bon society of Bedford Hills. N. Y.
show that gourds fulfill the needs
of the case, in being both attractive
to the birds and extremely cheap,
SO cheap that over 2,000 of them
have been sold within the last two
years to people living in and about
Bedford township. They were first
brontht here for this purpose by
William G. Borland.
These gourds, says H. M. Howe
in-Eird Lore, when tried in compe
tition with more than J'9 shingle
boxes, of a form approved by sev
eral of the most competent Ameri
can authorities, proved so much
more attractive, 50 per cent of those
examined having been nested in dur
ing the first year against only 19
per cent of the boxes.
These gourds, strung with marlin
and ready for hanging, with the
proper holes for entrance and drain
ing, cost us only 10 cents apiece,
but a properly organized industry
ought to turn them out much more
cheaply, probably at a cost of not
over 6 cents each, because our cost
was based on unfavorable condi
tions, working in an amateur way,
with no special appliances, wholly
by adult hand labor, on a small
scale, and at a great distance from
North Carolina, where our gourds
were raised, SO that - our freight
charges were excessive.
A gomi lasts four years nd per
haps longer. Papier-mache gourds
would last much longer, and might,
perhaps, be made a an even lower
tost, to judge from the cost of papier-mache
pails J but here actual
experiments are needed to show
whether a finish could be given
them which would sttract the birds.
Tht cost of raising and curing
the gourds themselves is very small,
and the only additional expense is
that of cleaning them out and cut
ting and stringing a few holes, so
that the total, cost is small enough
to permit distributing them on a
scale of real importance to agricul
ture. .The preparation would nat
urally be done in winter, and there
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fore under favorable labor condi
tions. Here, .then, seems to be an in
dustry awaiting a captain. The
work to be done is, iirst. to diffuse
among the fanners the knowledge
Of the benefit from setting uy nest
ing homes and winter feeding, so
as to create an active demand; and,
second, to organize in the south an
industry for preparing and deliver
ing these gourds. .
THE POET'f CORNER
flnoit evening, little Jar;
Why 6o you shine ao brlelitT
W'hy. don't you Unow, It's my l!aht
To Rllmn and gluw on each dark night?
The mill la bipr and round,
Whl!. t am If tt la and atmlBlit;
Hut I can shina on my pin) mate
by being loving and kind. J. M.
they are tha rl whnjook befort,
Nor feHr the !"ok bpftind;
Who In the darkneea atlll ia-uora
Pale nhadowa of the mind.
Who, havinK lout,, though lorn he much,
HHil dlare t dream and do,
for what win ahattcred at touch.
It may be tnanded, too.
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The Little Willful Princess
By DAVID CORV.
fTHE following morning the little
. willful princess and her pet
monkey left the castle, the
beautiful owner of which they had
awakened from her long sleep by
the magic of the dwarf's jewel, and
resumed their jouriney homeward.
Over high hills and valleys they
winged their way in their flying
suits until, toward evening, they ap
proached the outskirts of a small
village. As they descended to the
ground they noticed a queer little
old woman hobbling away on her
crutch toward the wood. Her nose
was as crooked as a horn, and al
most as long. ' It crooked down to
meet her chin, and chin crooked up
to meet her nose. Her face was
brown and full of wrinkles, and her
eyes were as black as charcoal, and
as bright as diamonds. She was
very old, and her back was bent
like a bow, Her hair, which was
perfectly white and as long and fine
as the finest of flax, hung dovyn her
back in a braid.
The princess and the monkey
paused to watch her as she hobbled
away from the nearest house,
where she had apparently just made
visit In the garden on one side
were three rose bushes on which
were growing three vert beautiful
roses. The little princess leaned
over the fence to gaze at them, for
she suddenly felt homesick at the
sieht of them, remembering how
beautiful were the roses in the royal"
gardens at home, now so far away.
And as she stood there Watching
the lovely flowers a woman came
to the doorway, and shielding her
eyes with her hand, looked an
iouslv down the roadway. And as
she turned to gaze the other way,
she noticed the little princess and
her pet monkey standing by the
Lnce. A look of astonishment
passed over her faceiat the strange
spectacle of a girl and a monkey
with wings upon their shoulders,
but before she could speak the lit
tle princess came forward and said:
"What beautiful roses you have
in your garden !"
"Why. where did they come
from, sue said in a tone ot sur
price. "Tis late for roses, and this
morning early I did not even notice
a bud upon the bushes."
"No?" said the little princess,
"that is indeed strange I"
"Did you see three children?"
asked the good woman hardily no
ticing the little princess' remark,
two boys and a girl:
"I don't remember seeing any
one," the princess replied, "except."
she added, "a little old woman with
a very crooked nose and a very
crooked back just as we neared
your cottage.
Ah, met signed the good wo
man, "whither can those children
have gone?" And she wiped her
eyes with the end of her white
apron.
"Perhaps we can find them,"
suggested the monkey, bowing po
litely. "Yoa will perceive, my good
woman, that we have on magic
wings which will enable us to trav
el quicklv, so that if you have not
missed the children for over long,
we might come upon them in a
short time."
' Twas but r half hour ago I
told them to be gone and not re
turn until thev could behave them
selves, and I fear they have wan
dered a war with sadness tn their
little hearts."
"Let us fly about and set if we
cannot discover them," suggested
the Princess, and suiting her actions
to her words, she flew off in one
direction, while the monkey took an
other. Try as they mifjht, however,
they could find no trace of the three
children. Behind bushes and under
thickets, in the wood and the tall
meadow grass, they looked with
are, but finally they were forced to
return to the cottage and tell the
anxious mother Unit they could find
them nowhere.
"Do not weep," said the 'ittle
Princess, laying her hand on the
good woman's arm, surely no harm
can have befallen them. They will
no doubt return at any moment."
The Princess and the monkey
finished their meal as quickly as
possible irtd went out again to the
roadside to watch for the children.
"Come, I will pick you a rose,"
said the good woman, trying to hide
tha tears that ere tailing from
her eyes, "for I know you love
roses."
Then she ami the little Princess
and the pet monkey turned from
the roadway into the little gate and
entered the garden. A narrow
pebbly path wound in and ont
among the flower beds, so they
went in single file toward the three
beautiful roses. "Is it not lovely?"
asked the good woman leaning
over the nearest rose. And with a
sudden movement she leaned
over and kissed the beautiful .lower,
while her tears fell jtpon the trem
bling petals. But before she had
time to pluck it from the bush it
timed into one of her little children.
With a glad cry. the child threw its
arms around the mother's neck,
promising, over and over again never
to be disobedient again. But the
good woman could hardly wait to
give a kiss in return, so anxious
was she to press her lips against
the petals of the other two roses.
There was great happiness in the
small flower garden after this, and'
the children, after a short cry and
many embraces, were most inter
ested in their two visitors, especially
the monkey.
"Come," said the good woman,
"ycut supper is still waiting."
"Wre will come, too, if ve may,"
said the little princess, laying her
hand on one curly head, and the
monkey knowingly took the lead, so
that the three children eagerly fol
lowed him into the house.
As tlu supper neared its end the '
good woman looked up suddenly
and asked, "But how did it come to
pass that you were changed Into
roses?" for in the excitement and
joy at recovering her children she
had forgotten the strange circum
stances. '"Twas a little old woman ho
made us into roses," cried the lit
tlest boy. "Yes, she asked us why
we were crying, and we told lier
because we had been disobedient,
and that our mother had told ua not
to come home until we were good."
"Yes," Interrupted his brother,
"and I said I didn't want to be good,
and that I would rather stay away;
so she said: 'I will change you into
roses, so that you. may see how $or
rowful your poor mother will be
when you do not return this even
ing.'" And then we began to cry," aaid
the elder child, "but before we could
rim, away, we found ourselves roses
growing out in Our own garden."
"It must have been the little old
Woman toe saw," said the princess,
turnittj? i.o her pet monkey.
jjii sue nave a very crooked
nose?" asked the littlest boy.
"And did her chin turn up till it
almost touched it?" asked the next
child.
"And was her hair in a long, white
braid?" asked the girl, "and were
her eyes black as coals and bright
as diamonds?"
"Yes," answered the princess,
turning to each child in answer to
the question.
"And she hobbled along on a
crutch," added the monkev.
"Yes," cried all the children at
once, "she did."
At that moment the little old
woman herself appeared. The chil
dren clung in terror to their moth
er's skirt, while the little princess
caught hold of the monkey for pro
tection. -
"Fear not," said the little old
woman in a kindly voice. "All's
well that ends well. I returned to
find out whether the three roses
were to sleep in the garden or in
their feather beds." At this the
children grew bolder and lost much
of their fear. And the little prin
cess turned to the little old woman
and said, "I am Mire you would not
have let them remain roses all
through the long night."
"Bless you, no," replied the old
woman, with a twinkle in her black
eyes. "Bless you, no. But I am
glad it was the mother's kiss of for
giveness that made them good little
children again."
"So am I," replied the little prin
cess in a whisper, "it makes ine re
nlember how often my dear mother
kissed me in loving forgiveness."
And here the little wilful princess
actually began to cry. "I feel quite
homesick," she sobbed.
"There, there," said the little oH
woman, "don't cry," and turning to
the mother of the three little chil
dren, she said, "take the little prin
cess into your cottage and pat her
to bed with your own dear children,
for she is far from her home and
lonely."
"That 1 will gladly do." answered
the pood woman, and placing her
arm lovingly about the little prin
cess, led her into the humble cottage
for the night.
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