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just now, said he wouldn’t have me
for a gift. Said he preferred a billy
goat.”
“Did you go to the Tennis Ball last
night,” the Base Ball Mat called
across the aisle, to the Captain of
Noah’s Ark.
“No,” replied the old fellow, “it’s
too much of a Racket for an old cod
ger like me.
“Your hair reminds me very much
of a little darkey baby somebody
brought into the shop the other day,”
said the Rag Baby to the French Doll.
“I don’t see why—l’m a blonde, not
a brunette,” retorted the Doll.
“That’s just it,” said the Rag Baby.
“The little darkey boy was a very
loud yeller, too.”
“(Hello, old chap!” exclaimed the
Cane to the Walking Doll. “Put on
your hat and let’s go for a stroll.”
“Sorry, but I can’t. I’m all run
down,” replied the Walking Doll.
“Why don’t you asK the Automo
bile?”
“I did,” returned the Cane, but he
is tired.”
“My dear,” called Mr. Noah to his
wife, “will you please look out of
the window and see if it is still rain
ing.”
“I’ll be glad to, my love, said Mrs.
Noah, in a muffled voice, “but really,
I’m wedged in so tight in this corner
that I can’t move, what with an ele
phant, a kangaroo and both yaks set
ting on my back.”
“Hear about the accident on the
Toy town Railroad?” asked the Tin Sol
dier.
“No. Was it very serious?” asked
the Baby-Jumper.
“•Serious!” replied the Tin Soldier.
“Somebody left a marshmallow on the
track, and the ten-ten express ran in
to it, and was completely derailed. The
engineer was thrown head first into
the fish pond alongside of the track,
and broke through the glass, scraping
the paint off his ear, and a plaster-of-
Paris passenger in the last car was
so completely smashed up that they
had to send for a vacuum-cleaner to
sweep him up.”
A VARDEMAN.
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THE CWL.
“On our perforated sheet this time
we have two owls. These are inter
esting birds, are they not? Let’s
draw them on the board. We have no
crayons to represent their colors, but
we will draw a few lines to represent
feathers.
“Joe, can you spell this bird?”
“Hit’s er owel, ain’t it? I don’t
know how to spell, though.”
“O-W-L, owl. You must not say
owel.”
“Yes’m, but we ’uns alius called ’em
owels. I knows lots about dem birds.
I’se been skeered almost to death by
’em. ‘Who, who! who! who! who are
you?’ dey axed me as I went through
the dark woods by myself. I’se found
many er nes’, too. De aigs is big as
hen aigs, and white like ’em, an’ I
use ter fool de boys wid ’em and den
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laugh after dey had roasted ’em and
et’ em.”
“That was very wrong. Suppose
they had been unhealthy and had
made your school-mates sick? No,
children, we should never have fun
at another’s expense. Honest fun is
good for us, but it is mean to laugh
at others when they have been de
ceived by us.”
“Yes, Miss, but I didn’t know. I
ain’t been raised in no meetin’ house,”
said honest, but ignorant Joe. “We
alius has our fun an’ axes no ques
tions about the right uv it.”
“Are these ears or horns?” asked
little Mary, going to the board and
pointing to the largest owl.
“They are tufts of feathers. Per
haps they help in hearing. See what
large eyes these birds have. The
owl’s eye is made to see with at
night. He is blind by day, and hides
in some dark place, but at night he
flies about to get his food. If he sees
some white chickens in a tree he flies
to that tree and sits beside the chick
en and pushes until he pushes it off,
then he flies down and kills it and
eats as much as he wants. If poison is
put on the remainder of the chicken,
the owl will go back next night and
eat again, and will be found dead
next morning.
“The owl is not of much use to
man unless it is in destroying mis
chievous small animals, such as rate,
mice and moles.”
“The feet are very strange,” said
Mary.
“Yes, with those claws or talons
it catches and carries off its prey.
See how sharp. It kills poor little
mice and rabbits with those cruel
claws.
“Now, let’s rub out the owls and
draw a tree. We will make it without
leaves. Let’s draw an owl in the
tree, white snow on the ground, a
crescent moon and some white fleecy
clouds.
“Now, in this corner, we can draw
a house. With this white crayon we
can make snow on top of the house.
See, we have a pretty picture.
“Here are some words to spell.
Write them on your slates or tablets:
Owl, Mink, Rabbit, Chicken, Mouse,
Rat.” MATTIE HOWARD.
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AID FROM AN ALBATROS.
The following most extraordinary
circumstance is furnished in a letter
from an officer of the Eighty-third reg
iment, now in India, to a friend in
Montreal. “Whilst the division of the
ikiighty-third regiment, to which the
writer belonged, was on its way to In
dia, being at the time a short dis
tance eastward of the Cape, one of the
men was severely flogged for some
slight offense. Maddened at the pun
ishment, the poor fellow was no soon
er released, than, in sight of all his
comrades, he sprang overboard .There
was a high sea running at the time,
and as the man swept on astern, all
hope of saving him seemed to have
vanished. Relief, however, came
from a quarter where no one ever
dreamt of looking for it before. Dur
ing the delay incident on lowering a
boat, and whilst the crowd on deck
were watching the form of the soldier
struggling with the boiling waves, and
growing every moment less distinct, a
large albatross, such as are always
found in those latitudes, coming like
magic, with an almost imperceptible
motion, approached and made a swoop
at the man, who, in the agonies of
the death struggle, seized it and held
it in his grasp, and by this means kept
afloat until assistance was rendered
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from the vessel.” Incredible as this
story seems, the name and position
of the writer of the letter, who was
an eye-witness of the scene, placed its
authenticity beyond doubt. But for
the assistance thus rendered, the writ
er adds, no power on earth could have
saved the soldier, as in consequence
of the tremendous sea running, a long
time elapsed before the boat could
be manned and got down —all this
time the man clinging to the bird,
whose flutterings and struggles to es
cape bore him up. Who, after this,
should despair? A raging sse a
drowning man —an albatross; what
eye could see safety under such cir
cumstances? or who will dare to call
this chance? Is it not rather a lesson
intended to stimulate faith and hope,
and teach us never to despair, since
in the darkest moment, when the
waves dash and the winds roar, and
a gulf seems closing over our heads
there may be an albatross near.
REX.
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PUTTING OUT THE LIGHT.
Alleging that Myers’ Ancieht His
tory and his Mediaeval and Modern
History, high school text-books, were
unfair to the Roman Catholic religion,
Catholics of the Dallas, Texas, dio
cese have been asked to protest to
Governor Colquitt against the adop
tion of these books in the high school
of Texas.
Father Nolan, yesterday, at the
morning services of St. Patrick’s Ro
man Catholic Church, read a letter
from Bishop J. P. Lynch of Dallas,
asking Catholics to act.
The letter states the state text
book commission is about to adopt the
Myers histories over the protest of
Prof. John O’Shea, a Catholic mem
ber of the board, who has refused to
vote on the adoption of any other
text-book so long as the hoard persists
in this determination.
Bishop Lynch calls on all heads of
families to write to Governor Colquitt
a member of the text-book commis
sion, and ask that he use his influ
ence to prevent the adoption of these
books. —From Fort Worth, Texas,
Star-Telegram, Nov. 5, 1912.
The watchful picket on the Firing
Line adds: “I will see that Gov Col
quitt hears from somebody besides
papists in regard to this matter.”
There should be no letting up in
watchful solicitude respecting the con
stant efforts of the Jesuits to poison
the wells of historical knowledge.
The enemies of the public school
must not be placed where they can
destroy its efficiency or cripple its
usefulness. A national central organ
ization ought to have the public school
as its special care and defense so as
to give aid to state, city and country
districts in the struggle with Rome.
The war on public education led by
the Jesuits should be stopped.
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