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IO For the ( WHEN THE \ A breeze came out of the west o Keady for business and ready fo Saucy and restless and misehie' Wilder and gayer and stronger Tossing the hat off a little mi Oh_ Jhp wild rha.xtJ Uiof t1?a* oon "Oh, wait, naughty hat," the lit To think of the thing she had clr Not stopping to comfort, on hur It worried the passers and pla> It hurried and hurried until in It found itself boine on the wi With wild clouds of dark'ning o Quite hiding the inoon from th< And the breeze, ere he knew, \ Alas for the hat whicii no more Aias for tiie maiden who home To tell dear mamma ot the bre But mamma will comfort the tii When she tells of the frolic the And safe in her room soon fori That worried the passers and l MISS MATTIE'S I By L. M. M The third class was goin? Mattie's yard for a pail of the whole ten of the Thin Ragland and Bobby Foster, it, carried the pail and heac hind them came four pairs of each little girl wore a gay pi plump feet. The Third Class was alw; over to Miss Mattie's. Mi brown house just across the It looked like nothing so m larger than common, anion bushes. When- the Third Class w; its visit to the well, Miss M called to it. She had two je! of it, and, besides, she gav bunch of lillies of the valh lilac bushes. "Isn't Miss Mattie lovely iney went aown tne lane. "I wish we could do son1 show her how much we like Everyone looked at Nann Nannie would have an idea was famous in the school for Nannie felt that the occ She thought very hard all t house and the others were c During the afternoon she the neglect of her fractions marks in dictation, but she By the time school was ou THE PRESBYTERL y Children VIND BLEW. ne day, r play, vous fcOO, It grew, aiH'o h Q-J H cy wind led! tie maid cried, erlshed with pride! ried the breeze, ed with the trees, its might, ngs of the night ver the sky, i passers by, vas with wild winds combined i he can And! trudges slow eze that would blow. ed little maid naughty wind played, gotten the breeze jlayed with the trees. ?Marion Stuart Wonson. JIRTHDAY GIFT, [ontgomery. ; up to the well in Mis: water. Not that it needet .1 Class to do this; Teddj who were the only boys ir led the procession, and be little girls, arm in arm, ant int sunbonnet and had bar* ays glad of an excuse to gt iss Mattie lived in a litth road from the schoolhouse uch as a bird's nest, a litth g its apple trees and lilai is recrossing the yard aftei lattie came to her gate an< lly cookies for each membei e each of the little girls i ;y from the bed under th< ?" said Rosella Brown, a: lething real nice for her t( her," said Tessie Baker. lie Miller. They were sun ;r xt *4 O.UJ Ullt wuuiu. i \ dllllM her ideas. asion called for reflection he way back to the school areful not to disturb her. continued thinking hard t( and spelling. She lost fiv< had her reward elsewhere t Nannie had her idea, an< \N OF THE SOUTH. the Third Class, understa triumphant expression, si ground. "Let us make Miss Ma Nannie. "What on earth is that? "I know," said Rosella, rose jar." "Yes; and this is my pla Miss Mattie is always so j she gives one of us anythi one of us, let that one giv for the jar as long as the birthday comes in Noveml tell her it's just all the nict back to her in a rose jar." The Third Class beame* reputation. Little Ruth C lief. She had been so afr call for some money and was all right now. There cabbage rose bushes in tht "Of course we must ke time comes to give it to M It was agreed that tin charge because she lived and siste/s, being told of t Brown said she would givi over to Nannie, a quaint, > blue and gold. And Nann 1 would give the necessar r tend to the curing of i gathered. The roses were just b< 1 rose jar started, and fron - months scarcely a day pas of rose leaves, rich red. o ) or yellow as sunshine W2 t and gold jar on the Miller Little Ruth Clark put i ; Miss Mattie had helped 1 c one day when she was jus big hopeless words. An r Raglan dropped in the la j Mattie sewed up a big rer r ing a tree behind the sc i work to find his rose leav 5 over. He tramped all ov< noon, looking for them ar 3 white rose in Aunt Melind Melinda let him have it wi > was told what it was for. Then Jessie Miller tool i put in dear knows what ; was shut down and the j? months. Miss Mattie's birthday c It was very cold and blea den were all dead. Miss 1 5 and sighed. She felt ver} e nobody to remember her :. could not keep the tears c I Just then a rap came at 1 )' May 26, igog. .ruling this by reason of her urrounded her on the playttic a jar of potpourri," said said Teddy, nodding sagaciously; "it's a ,n," said Nannie. "You know yood to us. Well, every time ng, or does anything nice for e a big handful of rose leaves roses last. Then, when her )er, we can give it to her and : things she did for us coming d. Nannie had sustained her lark sighed privately with reaid that Nannie's plan might she was so very poor. She were ever so many big pink ; Clark yard. ep it a dead secret until the iss Mattie," warned Tessie. p ipr slmiild Vi? i?-? Vini,!nV in a central place. Mothers he plan, approved of it. Mrs. e them a ja-, and she sent one dainty, old-fashioned one of ie's big sister, Jessie, said she y spices and oils, and atthe rose leaves as they were A e ginning to bloom when the < l that time for the next two sed that a chubby little fistfu^^^ 1 r creamy white, or pale ph^^^H ] is not dropped into the sitting-room table. " n the very first one, because lier learn her lesson at noon it ready to cry because of the d two months later, Teddy St nnp r?n th<> rlav tViof A/Tioo it in his jacket, torn in climbhoolhouse. Teddy had hard es, for the season was almost ir the village Saturday afterid at last found just one pale a Moore's garden. And Aunt th a right good will when she < the rose jar in charge and delightful things, and the lid ir put away to ripen for two ame on the first of November, k, and the flowers in her gardattie sat in her little kitchen r lonely and sad. There was birthday, she thought. She ?ut of her soft brown eyes. Phe door. Miss Mattie opened