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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, SATUHDAY, JUNE ROYS ?^ m c e JJ° ries and anecdotes OF \jvJ I O interest to the little men THE LITTLE Conducted By PETER PAN.' and leave household PUZZLE3. A Chime that Rings Like Bells. (B y Rose Seelye-Mlller.) Geographical Puzzle. 1 * void expressive of actual ex istence; ■■ ■Wi detter of alphabet an / ” wind expressive of real being .Inlie letter; a quality. j Three-fourths of the word bell; and s fountain. 4. A popular woman; a natural db Tl5 ion of l“ a - Remov , Iai (Remove central letter from each word and leave as follows:) ! From something painful, and leave small dwellings. ! Something that restrains, and leave utensils used by masons, 3. Suffering, — w Ut 4. n Refuse from burned material, and leave an exclamation. 5. To purchase, and leave near at ^ Something that secures, and leave something that means a command. can MR. ROOSEVELT FI8H7 A writer In the current Harper’s Weekly, discussing President Roose velt's recent remarks to the students of Harvard about the uses and limita tions of athletic sports, has some things to sav In regard to the president's ca pacity for stimulating moral aspirations in the young. If he haa defects In this line, says the writer. "It Is in the ur gency of the desire to have everybody hit the line hard. Kverybody Is not built to do that, and a good many per- eons prefer to express themselves in some other way. Daniel Webster—a very thoughtful man—loved to fish. Grover Cleveland loves to fish. The odore Roosevelt can hit the line a pret- tv good lick, but we don't believe he could fish If he tried ever to hard, though he might cut bait." MAGICAL BOYS’ CITY. At Winona Lake, Ind., a, boys' city Is to be established this summer, with Judge Willis Brown, of the Salt Lake juvssille court, In charge of the make- believe municipality. The Winona Boys’ City or camp Is the newest enterprise to be undertaken by a summer assembly, and the class of bovs that nre being gathered up for It are from Sunday schools, Y, M. C. A.’s and other organizations. In a number of cities, too, boys are forming neigh borhood clubs which are made up of their personal friends, and they are choosing adult leaders to take them to Winona Lake. The plan of the big camp is to have it made up of small camps from different places, but all under one general supervision. Judge Brown will have a number of assistants who are well known In Juve nile work, and at the head of each group of boys there will also be an adult from their home town who will keep a watchful eye on them. While there will be perhaps 600 or 600 b6ys in camp they will be under the Imme diate charge of moybe forty or fifty men. who are to give practically all of their time to the welfare of the young sters. A feature of the camp which appeals to these adults Is the dally conference that Is to be held wlien Judge Brown and other speakers will talk on questions' relative to the "boy problem,” and all of the adults will participate in round-table dlscusstoni. The boys’ camp Is to be open for. three weeks, beginning July 26, and July 30 a municipal election will be T . held. A boy mayor Is to bo elected. L* s ' y ® r ?-Sf 18 ”.Pof each camp will choose on alderman and mmiit de these officers will organize a city gov- “>6 children. The duty usually de- The Picnic Season in Full Swing. h*ppy? ntSlnr'chlldSn 0 .1*. ln Every day special cars, filled with from the rdcturesoo.' !£ii?. arri 2 5 » hrou * h ,‘ h ® "‘reels of the city to end gathered In ar»nn« U .» Ba Jly morning finds pretty, restless children the cars bound '}£I ?iL va , rl0 ! 1 * P 0,n ‘" In the city, from whence they take trousers’are ciem? r n«!s 8 e P c 2 8 grounds. Faces, hands, frocks, blouses and potions and . v»— "“.I "very face Is aglow with sweetest antict- At the ^®. ht wl,h the pure Joy of being alive and well, long summer 5^* ff* swings and many devices for the enjoyment of the thing! to^!I ^,n° on , bl * *•““ «™»> with their burdens of good body reallv esree ?*5'«? y t. day m * h "“ Bad wreck of pretty clothes, but no- lMt the menw cro^d.^ 8 boya , ft " d Slrls have had "uch a good time. At a green hrannh*h!![£* ar * packed lnto the car ". **ch boy nnd girl carrying ing veils® 0I P® " on VenIent tree, which, accompanied by deafen. ,ng waved ln chlldlBh glee at the passing cars, over their «unn^ e< Lhn?.5' ore ’ a P d ‘ h ® weary little children almost nod all about the "b!« day of th!fr Hve.°'' 0rta t0 ,eU marnma and papa who5^S*^ m i “ un ^7 , t V“ b n un d^iS v,nff ln h " Wflk8 mtle boys and 8lrlSi plcn^-t t o m h°. rn . 1 oM ‘Jr “■« neighborhood chlldren-who didn’t go to the before th. th# <p ‘ endld ‘Imes, and It really Is sevdral days Derore,the effect of the Innocent frolic has quite worn off. nlcs thev "l bo .I? ad ^ b ® Georgian write Peter Pan about the plc- Si V ( .,rih! h b n to this summer? Can’t they tell what games they play- fni whilh .xi grounds, the ilp and everything connected with the out- uosm l b8y ?P^ oy ? d ’. or dl “ not enjoy, as the case may be? Write at once, on one side of the paper, directed care of The Georgian, to I PETER PAN. THE PRESIDENTS SONS, Archie Roosevelt, one of the younger sons of President Roosevelt. Is a sturdy little chap, and takes after his father in ills utter lack of snobbishness. One afternoon Archie happened to be at the house of one of his schoolmates, where a fine lady of Washington waa calling. S i le ^ was t0 ^ thc waa the son of the president and attended the pub lic schools. The lady asked him some questions about his studies and then said: "Do you like a public school? Don't you And that many of the boys there are rough and common?” Archie straightened back his shoul ders and replied emphatically: “My papa says, that there are tall boys and short boys and good boys and bad boys, and those are the only kind of boys there are.” When Teddy, Jr., the oldest of the Roosevelt boys, was seven years old he was taken on a Journey with his mother, and was greatly excited over the prospect. The night before he started his father said: "Ted, you must take good care of your mother while you are away. I shall leave her In your charge.” That night when Teddy knelt for his little prayer, he said: "Please, God, take good care of papa, but I’m going with mamma myself/' The year that young Theodore went to Groton, Mass., to a preparatory school he waa Immediately put on the football eleven, having Inherited from his father a loVe for strife and whole some athletics. He played football with his whole heart and soul, and was always to be found where the scrimmage was thick est, and the struggle the fiercest. On the occasion of an «**portant game be- 8 tween two schools Teddy had been playing most brilliantly, when toward DREAMS. At last I know where they are kept, . My own. own dreams; At night I found them when I slept But now It seems As If I .only have to co A little way. And I can flud them all, I know, By night or day. I do not even shnt my eyes, I sit and wait nd pretty soor A little gate; All things I want come through to me, And I can bo A sailing, sailing on the sea— Heave ho! Heave ho! With pirates nnd with Indian braves And robber hands I hunt and ride, nnd live ln cavee, In foreign lands; I hunt big buffaloes, and lynx. I’m sitting here. the end of the game he got the ball and made a wild dash for the goal. He almost made a touchdown, when the opposition fell on him in a body. For several minutes there was nothing but a squirming mass of legs and arms, Teddy, of course, was at the bottom when he struggled up, his face very white, they asked If he was hurt. "Oh! I’m all right," Teddy tried to assure them, for he was eager to get back into the fray. s Just then one of. the Instructors ar rived and saw at a glance something was wrong. Teddy reluctantly sub mitted ton an examination,. It waa found that his collar-bone was broken, The lad walked off the field, and few among the spectators knew he was se riously hurt. Hew FisKcs Car? for Their Yeuhg. eminent, make Its lawa and aee that they arc enforced. It Is the Intention to make thia Boys' City as near like a genuine municipality as possible, with the boys on their hon or, and in entire control of It. The camp management has arranged all sorts of day and evening diversions for the boys, so that they will not have any Idle time while they are at the lake. The day amusements will Include "hikes" ln the woods and along the lake shore, fishing, boating on lake and canals, swimming, baseball, tennis, handball, field meets; kite flying and the like. Camera clubs will be organ- lied, prizes will bo given for photo graphs and tho boys will be taught, how to make lantern slides of theso pictures. Authorities on nature will lead crowds of the youngsters , Into the woods to study birds and trees. A big assembly tent Is to be erected ln the woods where the camp Is to be located, and here at night all the boys will be brought ln to mass meetings to hear story tellers, see moving pictures and "mong the musical features will bs conceits by the Salt Lake Juvenile Baud of forty well-trained boys. The hoys in the camp who take their musi cal Instruments will bo organized Into a big orchestra. Choir boys are being gathered up from over the state, and they will be the leaders In a chorus that Is to Include every boy In the camp. ORIGIN OF TERMS “UNCLE SAM,” ’’BROTHER JONATHAN,” ETC. "I'ncle Mtm.”—Tho American government was called "Unde Bam" because onu Sam uel Wilson, government Inspector of beef sad pork at Troy, N. Y„ In 1812, had a way of marking hie barrels with bis own Initials <ed "U. B.," meaning United States. A workman, who wae something of a wag, *aw the letters and remarked that he sup* I'osa,! they stood for "Unde Ssm." The Joke was retold until it became a common ‘"Slag, and the general government hse been so nicknamed for nearly 100 yearn. Brother Jonathan.’’—More than a century fe° the United Btntee was known to bog- land nnd other countries as "Brother Jona than" It wee because George Washington S*» greatly Intlunced by the opinions^ Of Jonathan Turnbull, of Connecticut, end had • way of eaylng, "Well, I muet coneult Brother Jonathan,” before be made da* The term became local and then drifted l0 g ,. nerl i nM . ■errymnnder."—Eldrldgo Gerry of Mas joehuaetts redlstrlcted the state to his own “d'antage In 1811, and when some onelook- fd at the new district and remarked that It ™kcd for nil the world like a salamander, ™5 el “ replied: ‘‘Better »sy Gerry mander, And eo the name wae born and 1 else replied: , . - And SO the name wn. iwru; fvdlitrtctlngP* 18 tept *** nt 1111 * ucb P° ,1Uc ** ’ UngtiH ’—Borgheee, n corrupt man of the I'.n 11 1 ,rI ? “»ys of history, bad such a Jel l. 1 !. ot f r*mlng fictitious checks, notes 7,7 “ ll ]*. of exchange, playing on the cred- , lrn<1 ere. that anything In the line ‘"rged paper became to the Westerner remained 8 ' 0t h®* 01 ' * n<1 ®° ,l1 * name b °* V er?,2f* Bowie of early pioneer feme In- whi h i broed-bladed, sharp-pointed knife *hbh haa since borne his name. Lime K OVERTAKEN. ™® h®*’ little boy, you've forgotten ■r„ J ,? ur ,Buyers There'S' dear God up In heaven. , 5 n tell-tale droop to your bonny head, "d the hand! of the clock toll eeren. 1 Ah' Isif;. '!*!!? boy, you nre fast asleep, Of ‘be dear God esy. B t .LiT e° nodded his evening prayer, ‘lit frolicked the livelong day. volves upon mother or sister or nurse. In any cose, brother or the butler would consider It a task outside hts province to see that no harm enme to the little ones. Out at the zoo, too, It Is usually the mother who stands guard over her young, who watches and cleans and pets and plays with them. But pay a visit to the aquarium, a fresh-water aquarium In Its natural state. Thero It is the gaudy-colored father who floats motionless a few Inches above the cup-shaped nest, bright-eyed, keen and watchful, or dart with a flash and a rainbow swish to lure away some curious submarine In truder. Among the fishes, at least of the rivers and lakes, custom has placed the burden of care of the young ln moot cases upon the male. This Is merely one of a number of Interesting facts shown by Dr. Theodore Gill, associate In xoology at the United States Nation al Museum, as the result of a series of studies upon parental care among freah water fishes published by the Smith sonian Institution. , An Injustice to the Fish. It has been the general Impression among naturalists from the days of Aristotle- that fishes are Indifferent to their eggs and young and leave them entirely to the care of Mother Nature. And through the teachings of natural ists, therefore, the Idea that sea ani mals have not that Instinct which Is practically universal among land ani mals to care for and to protect their offspring, oven to tho sacrifice of their own lives, has been spread abroad. "Oliver Goldsmith In 1774," says Dr. Gill, "told his readers that fishes seem, all except the whale kind, entirely di verted of those parental solicitudes which so strongly mark the manners of the more perfect terrestrial animals.” Many to the present time entertain that b °Drf Gill has devoted much of his life to the study ot natural history and Is one of the foremost authorities of the country, not only upon Ichthyology, but upon most subjects connected with nat ural history. Hts recent studies show beyond a doubt that this Idea Is far from the truth; ln fact, the species which manifest cars for their young are ’ he. "that the nres- the cups of acorns around the nuts,' and ln this ■ manner they are carried and protected until they hatch. Floating Neat of Eggs. Probably many an angler has hap pened upon a mass of fish eggs floating In a stream or lake, to all appearances deserted by the parent fish. , But these are not mere foundlings to be hatched. There has been much work expended upon this floating nest. Perhaps Its simplest form, explains Dr. Gill, found In the many colored flsh of par adise which a floating nest of a mere conglomeration of air bubbles held to gether by a sticky substance from the fish's mouth. Other flahes gather to gether to bind their rafts, twigs and fallen leaves so that a floating nest of this sort looks like little more than a bulk of mud and river waste. There Is one species, the sticklebacks, which Is even equipped, spider-like, with spe cial web-maklng organs to weave a binding thread tor the materials select ed for the nest. And It Is the general rule that the care-taker Is tho male. Dr. Gill not only discusses these and other methods of protection to young, but upon the philosophy of parental In stinct In Ashes says: "The attribute of parental care must be regarded as an outcome of selfishness, or. If you will, self-love, a result of the sense of pro prietorship. The eggs are the fishes' own, and therefore they and the result ing larvae are to be cared for as such." Woman ! IMATROMONIALt - ...IDEALS... By. DOROTHY DIX. TJ? ono of tho Ironies of .'life that the thing that comes up to our Ideal so set* — * fancy: dom Area < supper when we know wo ooght .w- ««.»- lug bread and milk. - We loug for chiffons and laces when wo are cousciuuh we suoUlu 8nend.our money for serviceable homespbn. \\ o enjoy novels when our sober Judgment i i should be Improving our minds bv studying history and philosophy, willing to do without the ne- luxuries ^ only we'might hpve ,the ■ yagnry of the human mind extends to people, and, generally speaking, no com* oany Is so attractlre to us as that which Is wyl for our manners aud f The most Important phase u t im» .ui.jbc. is reached, however, when a man or a woin- a i? s rolled upon to decide whether lie or she will marry the one who sets bis or her pulses thrilling, or the one who realizes every specification of what a good wife or a husband should be. •~iV£ f i >rtuna . te, * v ' thoso wh0 Qro ro®* 4 filled with Inward graces are most often lacking In outward attractions. Tho girl who Is In dustrious and domestic and economical and pious and possessed of all tho‘virtues that a woman to make her a real helpmate to ft man generally possesses a knobby fore- head, skimp hair, no figure nnd a taste ln dress that sets your teeth on edge. On the other hand, the filrty and frivolous maiden, who hasn t got ouo single quallAcation to recommend her for the Job of wife, is a perfect compendium of charms that makes her every man's heart's desire, even though he^knows that he will be taken In If he gets t jL*L? au * e earnest young man, who tmlther drinks, nor smokes, norplays the races, but who leads the Epworth League and. la getting on In business, and bears a ylslhla stamp ot being O. K. on flntl *° marry whom would be like putting your money ln the snvinga bank, ninety-rune times out of a hundred wrears bis hair too long nnd hla trousers too short, nnd ahlffles when he talks, and steps on your dress every time ho comes within 20 feet of you. Whereas the man who Is a hopeless detri mental, Ind whom It- would be suicide to marry, Is good to look upon, good to talk to; good fun to go out with, and knows every short cut aud by path to a woman's affections. Individual, but It Ts pretty hard on the oue who must chooso between them. Many a man has sighed as he asked him self why the homely rich girl that Jt would be so advantageous for him to marry had not the melting eyes and winning ways of the poor girl who bad snared bis fancy. Many a girl has wspt salt and bitter tears Into her pillow wondering why the rich widower who was courting her could not he young and slim and dance the tw’o-step like some poor clerk that it would be ft 2-hvH-flnt fate to marry. But, considering that one must generally choose between the ornimental and the useful, which should one take in a life partner? I ehould any that a man should always choose his fancy and a woman her Ideal. A man starts Into matrimony with n cer tain capital of love that Is more apt to di minish than to Increase. If a woman has not fired his 1'iaglnatlon before the wedding day, nothing Miort of a miracle will enable ler to start a combustion In it afterward. If In the days of courtship she has raised no thrill In his breast, to her dying day, no matter what she doet, she will never make bis pulse !>eat one throb quicker. Dally observation shows that even men who were wild olmut women before they married them calmed down Into mighty matter-of-fact, unsentimental, unromautlc, unattentlvo husbands is soon as the cere mony was over. Therefore a man does wisely to choose tho woman who appeals most strongly to bis taste and raises most commotion ln his breast, no matter what drawbacks she has. Women reverse this attitude toward mat rtmony, and a woman should pick out the man who satisfies her Judgment rather than her heart. If she can not find • man who docs both. This la because women’s of- foctlons are as adhesive as a barnacle, nnd will attach themselves to anything In their Immediate vicinity. Even If a woman mar ries without being much In loro, sho will prow to love her busbsnd If be Is good to Besides, other things than love enter Into woman'e life. A good home, a comforta ble Income, a settled position In society are not to be despised, and more than these is the freedom from anxiety. The woman who never has to'tear her hair about other women, who - -- ‘ night to open band. Is happily married, no matter whether she's got any romantlo Illusions about her husband or not. Then thero Is this also to be considered— that our fancies are exceedingly fragllo things, and Inst a very short time at best. Close acquaintance with a charming acap grace sheers off the grace nnd leaves onl„ the scrape Into which a woman has gotten by marrying him. If you will look about you carefully you will see that the women who nre trying to reform husbands are DEPARTMENT DEVOTED SOLELY TO AFFAIRS OF THE LITTLE WOMEN Conducted By MARJORY DAW. GIRLS PUSSY WILLOW IS A8LEEP. mu ilotn* mttitli palpltntlnx orer It. They are. doing It In tears nnd dluguat. _ . i i n gm,., a , the . _ , .. _ woman who msr tin tbs man whom her sound common ■enss approves never regret. It. _ thrifty woman will make her home atroctlve, though It may be ■ hut In the wilderness. Women sometimes loss A RE8TLE8S CHILD. By May Prsston. Meek as milk Is little Gretehen When her picture's drawn, But I tell you she's a wretch in Church on Sunday morn. She's not still a single minute; And the seat Is small I can tell you with her In It. For ehe tires us all. sight of cn to luelgnlflce TV "tVu JS" '» more thnn peep; t*vIrk lbllt ,b * MBd m ”" C “ m,d *°® town eyes opened, the tiniest bit, more thnn peep: so numerous," says he, "That the pres ent article must be restricted to those which are inhabitants of fresh water.” And tho curious methods of protection adopted by different families of sea anlmale, or even cousins and aunts of the same family, ore not few. Dr. GUI has gotten together practically all that Is known among naturalists on the sub ject. Selecting a Neat. 'Naturally the most common or fre quent mode of care Is the simplest, he says, "consisting of little more than selection of a site for the deposit of the female’s eggs and subsequent guardian ship of these eggs by the male." The place selected Is usually cleared of stones and weeds, and In the cleared spaces “he eggs are laid. Home how- ever go further than this. A certain catfish in Queensland Is always very careful to nose and splash and ■ w *®h stones up from the river bed and pile them In n heap over hcr eggz- Then Acre are a lot of tribes among „„r American and African fishes that, mstetn" laving ‘heir eggk In a cer- tain spot ahd 5 watching them carefully whfle they hatch, carry them about In their mouths for weeks at a time. And JI sLvth American watess there swims a very'distant cousin to our catfish. whVch^has a method of attaching eggs a mrss w Jhe skin. The skin o the a ••»«*** ...» omitnrt thnn "liko A wronged woman should be Implacable, but rarely la. 8he la more likely to for give and forget. It la supposed that the Injunction to turn the other cheek if one la smitten was d! rected eicluslyely to women. Women are eunnowd to bide behind ■ smiling face all the sorrows of an aching any succeed in practicing the de ception. The woman who betrays the anguish of her soul to the world forfeits her claim to the sympathy of her sincere friends. If women would only reallzo that few nre interested In their woes or their am bitions, they would not ao often become tores and nuisaucet. Women rarely underestimate their own worth. Proper dignity and self-respect com mand the ftunilrntlon so much desired by oil Egotism In a man la trying; In a women It la Insufferable. • very little toward It. share In tbe reflected glory achieve.. „ their husbands to which they bavo contrib uted sometimes. Retting up rival claims for fame and popular favor generally ends In Inspiring criticism and disgust A noble woman Is not easily discouraged, ■ I . « IlirgS TO me BUHL - 1 u" ,,| v w ,‘iiiau lg. UV4 riiziiy MI uui Dg gtl, _ -WTLl!’ y ALLEN "DUOifGOOLE. fUh then grew, out around them "Ilko and often dl.plnye greater heroism thnu . Such an awful little fidget Is this restless elf. We shall have to tell the midget She must calm herself. During hie lest Illness Cumn. the greet Irish wit, was one day told by the medlcel attendant that he seemed to cough with more difficulty then he bod done the pre vious dey. “Thst'e odd enough,” replied the sick one, “because I've been practicing nil night." don pawnbroker exposed for sale in hie ebop window for fire dnyn n hundred-guinea (3600) diamond which ha priced at 2n 3d (66 cento). The article found no parchnner. nnd the weger was won by tht pawn broker. man would under like circumstances. Thera Is no time In tho life of man when he cen do without a woman, ln Infancy nnd old ago he la dependant upon her ten derness nnd cire; In middle life nhe In his helpmate end Inspiration. Tho acknowledgment of one of tht great est men of the world. “All that I nut or con be I owe to my angel mother,” Lincoln, should be in Inspiration to nil mothers to emulate the mother of Uucolu. rrobably the lest thought of mont per sons ts of their mother. Women should make their homes jo at tractive that neither bashnmln nor children would whtb for clubs In which to speud tbelr leisure hour,. It ,peeks volumes for wives snd mothers Why sre men so selfish? Because tbelr mothers nnd wives hero msde them so by anticipating their wantn and waiting upon them. ' By Roy Winchoeter. Now does Pussy Willow In the hollow deop Rock her little kittles Till they’re all asleep. Safe from winds of winter— Wrapped In softest down— 1 * Tacked up closely to their chins In their cradles brown. March will find them waiting, And Impatient grow, April showers their cradles burst- May new charms bestow. Merry children's eyes will dance 'V)]|'I1 they 800 them sprout. And we’ll laugh to hear thslr cry— "Pussy WIDOW’S out!" —The Housekeeper for May. MISS SHARP'8 DISCOVERY, . Miss Sharp's Select School was the school of Eastown; no matter how many little primary schools bristled over the village, girls away wound up at Miss Sharp's to be "graduated"— and as fast as tho other girls grew pp. there were new ones to take their places, and many fond mammas, whose bwn tender years has blossomed under Miss Sharp’s watchful eye, were glad to know that their Own little daughters were being well guarded, so for. many years Miss Sharp kept up her prestige. This good lady exercised the strong est Influence ovor her pupils savo ln one direction; like a certain Biblical lady named Eve—they were very fond of forbidden fruit, tho fruit In this In stance being tho green-sprlng fruit which their young appetites craved, and older and Wiser heads always de nied them. Miss Sharp laid a special embargo on green plums, for June apples being out of school time, were of course beyond' her Jurisdiction. But those half-ripe, IuscIoub plums— the delight. of every school girl who din secrete a handful—were . Miss Sharp's abomination, and rigid was the examination to which she subjected any unfortunate who was under suspi cion. On many occasions, when the culprit doubled and turned—and so baffled her searching Inquiries, she had been known to stand the whole school In front of her and administer Jamaica ginger down the line, with an Impar tiality that was appalling. "Just to provide against possible In digestion and Insure more candor next time," ehe would observe with a grim smile, which sent a shudder among the suffering Innocents. On a certain spring morning, when green plums were most plentiful, Miss Sharp opened school In a perturbed state of mind; several articles had been reported mlaslng from day to day during the past week, and the girls' studies were seriously Interrupt ed while they. hunted up lost pencils, rubbers, penholders and so forth. The articles were so trifling that only some petty thief would have taken the trouble to secure them, but the incon venience was most annoying, and Miss Sharp determined at length to mount guard after school hotirs and catch the raecal red-handed. So absorbed was she ln this annoy ance that for the day ehe relaxed her vigilance concerning the plums, and the girls managed to smuggle enough for a feast ln the folds of their hand kerchiefs and In the bloused fronts of their shirt waists. There were two special girls—Jessie Brown and Annie Marvin—who were popular with the vlllago youths, and less fortunate girls hovered around them as the centers whenco all plums flowed, and on this day of Miss Sharp's absorption, they devoured unmolested. In the afternoon Mias Sharp, after apparently barring and bolting the school house as usual, hid herself In a far-off music room, leaving some blank books and pencils os decoys, upon the various desks. She strongly suspected that the bay who swopt the floors was responsible for tho shortage, but sho wished to catch him ln tho act before accusing him, and so sho waited. Soon the click of the latch' was heard, and he came In as usual; she watched him carefully os he climbed up and down after his broom, and sure enough, she actually saw him pockot two pencils! She was about to pounce upon him—Indeed, she had quietly fol lowed him to the large school room— whon a sound from the rear of tho building made her pause and shrink Into the shadow again. Two well-known, eminently respect able boys were creeping In at the back windows, each one carrying a largo bundle; and they stole softly to the two desks, belonging to Jesele Brown and Annie Marvin. They raised the lids, and Miss Sharp heard a thumping, mmedlately as the rattle of green plums—and then she boro down upon them. The sweeper heard, too, for ho stuffed something more In his pockets and hid behind the stove. "Ah. now I know who has boon steal ing on my premises!” she cried, eyeing them sternly, as they edged away from her Into a corner. "Now, I know who opened my girls' desks and carried off their belongings. Gentlemen's sons— young fellows who should know bet- ter—I’m ashamed of you—ashamed for your fathers when they have to pay lines In court tomorrow, for I’ll have you both up for tho annoyance you've caused me. I know now where all my pencils and rubbers and knives and blank books have gone. Empty your pocket* I" The poor fellows grow red and Indig nant. "We've never stolen from your school, nor anybody rise's! ” they de dared. 'You may say that In court" repeat, ed Miss Sharp, "for I've determined to arrest th* thief, whoever he may be.” There was a faint clatter behtnd the stove, as of the dropping of certain articles, and the sweeper vanished through the ride door. Mies Sharp saw him but ehe made no sign, only turn- in- her grim front to the culprits she had ln mind. They were quite pale now, and much fluetered, for nothing would convince the old lady that they were not guilty of petty larceny. And yet. If they tried to'clear themselves and showed what they had been doing, their favorite* would have no more stolen treats that season. "Come, come,” aald Miss Sharp, 'confess at once, or I'll send for an officer. What have you Just taken from those desks? Show me at once.” "We put something In," they blurted out In desperation at laat. "Let me look!'* she demanded. They opened the desks, and dlaplayed a sea of green plume, upon which Miss Sharp gazed with horror. "Take them out at once—at once! she ordered. 'In your hats—If there Is no other way." They obeyed her, feeling very small. Indeed. "Fling them out of the window!” sho. commanded. They hesitated. Green plums were dear. "As far as you can,” she Insisted. They obeyed her meekly. "Now, never let a green plum come near this school again. Go home and think how lucky you are not to be up for stealing. And If ever I catch Som? Letters to Marjory Daw. _ .. , _ Ruffin, N. C., June 3. 1907. . , Marjory Daw: I am a little girl living on the farm. My papa takes The Georgian and I like ta read the Sunday reading, and my little friends' letters so much. ‘ J live a mile from the station and a mile and a half from school. But I like to live In the country so much because everything Is so comfortable. I like to hunt the wild strawberries and pick blackberries and dewber ries. and besides we have Just lots of fun catching flsh. For pets I have a kitten and a calf. We have three little dogs and two large ones. Perhaps some of the little friends will send me a pet name for each little dog. I would be so glad. Hoping to see this In print, I am, Your new friend, CORA MOORE HARRELSON. r- ... Flalnville, Ga. Dettr Marjory Daw: I'm a little glfl 10 years old. I am In the fifth grade. I live In the country and our school te email. Wo have only two teachers, and they are both my sisters. I like to go to school. I have one little brother; he Is g years old. I have four sisters at home and one off teaching school. I take music lessons from one of my sisters, and I lov* music. I am afraid I will write too much so, goodbye. Your little friend, MARGARET JIARTYN. _ ,, , _ _ Winston. Ga., June 6, 1907. Dear Marjory Daw; I send you a short story for the first time. I live In the country on a farm. Papa takes Tho Georgian. I read all the chil dren s stories, your friend, JANET BARROW. _ ... _ ■ Cass Station, Ga. ,, Dear Marjory Daw: I am a little girl living on a form. I am 10 years old. My father takes The Georgian. I like to read it very much, especially the Saturday edition. I read'about the two boys and a mad dog. I sure did like It The piece In Ittat week's paper about Miss Hartley's birthday gift was fine. Those little girls were kind. Don't you think they were? I sure will be glad when. our school starts again, for I am like Maud Allea I Ilka to go to school. But I am also glad when vacation time la near. I liked Allis Mae Wooten s letter line, and hope she will write again. I will close for this time. Hoping to soe this letter In print, I remain, as ever. Your little friend, CLARA BELL. „ . . Hoschton, Ga. Dear Marjory Daw—I will again take the sweet pleasure of writing you. Oh, my! let me tell you, I received a nice letter from "E. E." X surely appreciated It so much. I am going to write her a nice letter soon. I wonder how many of my friends are going to Jamestown. Papa wants us all to go with hint. We all went to the World’s Fair at St. Louis, and had a nice time. I bought two rabbits from Mrs. S„ and mamma had me a pen built 11 by 7 feet, covered with wire netting. She selected a lovely place In the back yard under a beautiful peach tree. I have four rabbit houses Inside the pen and one Is painted red, one blue, one pink, and one white, atrlped with green, with regular doors and windows In It. Tho rabbits get In there and look through the windows. They surely look cute. I will send a story 1 composed about "John’s Goats." , I will close, as I want to put ln my story about "John’s Goats.” MAUDE LEOHR ALLEN. A VI8IT TO THE GRAVE OF GEORGE ELIOT. A lady went to Hlghgate near Lon don, to visit tho grave of George Eliot, one of the greatest of English novel ist*. Entering Waterloo Park, she paused to read the funny little placards prohibiting children with measles visiting the place, and went slowly down one of the many charming path ways edged with box, and bordered with English holly trees. Indeed she feaatod her eyes greedily upon her surroundings, and felt that George Eliot who died some years ago, must rest well content In the cemetery adjoin ing so beautiful a spot. Nearby, there was a large bronze statue of Sir Sid ney Waterloo, who was once a mayor of London, and who presented this beautiful park to Its people. Just as she was about to pass under the arch of Hlghgate she saw a party of bright looking girls, walking two by two and accompanied by their governess. Very English they were, with oxtremely ■ hnrf fffiWn a onrl alfhnito'h n i ♦ 1' short gowns and although about 1. their hair was flowing luxuriantly nnd crtmply, oh so crimply. The lady politely requested the gov erness and tho young girls to Inform her how to reach George Eliot’s grave. Neither the governess nor the young girls knew. Fancy any ono living near London, any one whose duty It Is to Instruct pupils, and even the pupils themselves—fancy none of them being able to direct the way to such a fa mous author's gravel In despair the lady turned and gazed at the hundreds and hundreds of grave stones, monuments and mounds before her. The roads were so muddy, and the cemetery was so up and down hill, many of the tombstones were eliding from their proper places, and were held up from the ground by unsightly beams The tombs were very odd. Great monuments mark the spot ot various graves, the spoco being so small that the bodies evidently have to be placed In the grave on top of each other. Nev er were graves so crowded—never, elsewhere, was there such an Irregular slanting cemetery. But where was tbe last resting place of George Elliot? An old grave digger, observing the lady's helplessness, came kindly to her assistance. Whom might you bs looking for, miss?” asked he. "If you please," replied the lady, who had learned to say "If you please” and “thank you,” every other word since her arrival ln London, "If you please can you direct me to the grave of George Eliot?" "Well, now, mlee, may I make bold to aslf whether he was burled here lately, or during the past few weeks?" The lady thanked him politely and fled. She went away without seeing George Eliot’s grave. Strange, here In tho town which was once the home of the poet Keats, and of Coleridge; where the famous crumbling old stone marks the spot where Dick Whittington sat as he listened to the bells of Bow church colling him to come back to London to be mayor, and where not far out on the Health Highway you come upon the “Spaniards' Inn,” mentioned by Dickens In "Barnnby nudge," and also the headquarters of Dick Turpin, ths famous cutthroat and robber- strange! I repeat, that no one could direct this lady to the grave ot the equally distinguished George Eliot. JOHN'S GOATS. By Janet Barrow. Once thero was a little boy who had everything he wanted. Ho had goats, wagons, calves, colts, dogs, cats, rab bits and every kind of toy. One day Hugh Beard came to play with him and I they did not know what to play. At last John (for that was his name) said: | "Let’s hitch up the goats and go by: for Nellie and Fanny Jones, and take ‘ them to ride." "All right." said Hugh, ‘let's do.” So they hitched up tho goats and went by for the girls. When they reached Mrs, Jones' and told her xvhat they had come for sho called the girls. After they got ln tho cart, Hugh Bald: i "Let's go by for Mary Sambers and Alice Gordon." They agreed, and they went by for the girls. Alice lived a mile from Mrs. Jones, and Mary lived In sight of the schoolhouse, which was half way to Alice's. When tho girls got In the little cart was full. Now John's mother didn't know where he was, but sup posed he was out playing with Hugh., After a while she splod something and 1 she ran to the window to see what It was. She was more than surprised when she saw John nnd Hugh and sev eral girls in tho cart, and the goats, Jip, and Bill, pulling such a crowd. Shei didn’t know what to think, but the ran I down the street and called John ati loudly as she could. Ha turned around] to seo who wus colling him, but when I he saw his mother he said; "What do you want?” She said: "Aren't you afraid that, that load Is too heavy for those goats?": He said: "No." She said: "AH right then." After half an hour he unhitched his I goats, anti they played a while, and th* ! girls thanked John and Hugh for their I ride. Finally John said: "Let's hitch. up tbe calves and take them home.” 1 So they did and then the boys wenti back to John's home. Hugh said; “John, I have got to goj back home now. Won't you go and! spend the night with me?’’ ! "Well, It you will ask mama. masH be I com" So Hugh asked John’s mother and the let him go. J THE FIRST GREAT LIGHTHOUSE The Pharos, ot Alexandria, which waa considered to be one of the seven wonders of the world, on account of Its grandeur and utility, Is perhaps the first lighthouse of which we have any definite description. It stood on the Island of Pharos, at the entrance ot the harbor of Alexandria, and Is said to have been constructed about three hun dred years before the Christian era by Sostratus Cnldlus, and was dedicated to the "Gods protector* of the safe guard of Bailors.'' The height of the original tower Is given os 460 feet, but Josephus writes that the light waa vis ible at a distance of about thirty-four miles. This would have necessitated a height ot about 660 feet. you—'' But the boys never heard what would happen. They were off like a flash, leaving Miss Sharp to enjoy her double triumph. Two crestfallen glrie viewed the empty spaces In their desks next morn ing, which th»y had expected to find filled with green plums, but Miss Sharp said nothing. A meek boy swept through the rooms next 'day, which bristled with an unusual supply of tempting ware*, but never touched one; and more remarkable still—noth ing In future was ever missed from the girls’ belongings.—Exchange. BIRD TROUBLES. Birds havo trouble enough of their own, for all thoy sing so cheerily, Som** times you. can hear thorn glvo pitiful frightened cries, or you may often hear them scolding with all their might and main. It Is only the cat that they scold, but often thoy havo trouble with thslr own bird neighbors. Tho bluejaya, or* regular little thieves, and will eat bird*' eggs whenover they can. Th* other birds know this and they always set up a big scolding when Mr. Blue* Jay comes anywhere In sight. Crows are thieves ot other birds, too,, and perhaps owls ara the worst of sIL for they cat tho little birds themselves. Then another trouble that th* birds] have is ln bringing up other birds* chll*J dren. It Is a great nuisance. The Eng*] Ilsh cuckoo always lays her eggs in i some other bird's m st, and thinks no mors about them. Tho cowblrd, • common black creature, with a dusty] brown wife, never brings up his own] children. Tho eggs are left ln tha nest I of a little bird like the sparrow, and; she finds that when all the eggs In her nest are hatched she has a strange, greedy-looklng child, who soon Is larg- j er than she Is and who wants all tha fattest worms. Birds are also troubled by the snakes and squirrels, who eat their eggs. So you see they have cares enough, with out being bothered by boys. i RHYMING ENIGMA. The correct answer to the riddle pub lished In last Saturday's Issue Is th* word "match." Seo if you can die-. cover what "prosperous Western town"! correctly answers this rhyming enigma: My first Is In dirt, never In soil; My second In women, never ln girl; Sly third Is ln long, never ln broad; My fourth Is lti Violet, not In Maud; My fifth Is In fetch, but not In bring; My sixth Is In cry, but never ln sing; Sly whole Is a prosperous .Western, town, As you will see If tbe lines you tool* down. . Point Barrow, Alnska, Is Uncle 8nm'g furthest point north. A letter from In-, dlsnapolls to I'otnt Barrow goes first by! train to Santtl". mlli'a; then by ocean, •teenier to Voltes, 1.600 miles farther; rarth and west; then by dog sleds orer Ice end snoe- 2,700 miles more to the north end west. Tho letter travels In one directloal S 800 mites, all tho dlstntice to American ter- tory.