The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-21
CHILDREN's CORNER.
SHORT STORIES FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS.

From the Canton (st. Lawrence County N. y
Plaindealer,
A citizen of Canton had shepherd dog
about one year old, 30" by name. "Jo''
got the bad habit of running ahead OF the
team, and Swapping at persons, or whatever
came in his way. Some two or three weeks
ago he caught hold of the skirt OF q boys
coat, and tore it.. His owner, wishing to
break him of the habit, held the dog while
the boy, at his direction, gave him smart
whipping. '!Jo's" heart was broken. lie
sneaked home, and went into the barn
which he was not known to leave again but
once, and then not of his own accord. He
could hardly be induced to lock at his mas
ter. whose constant attendant he had been
before. He refused all food, even from the
owners little boy, with whom he had been a
great pet. After pining week or more in
this way, becoming very poor, he was found
one morning standing upon the barn floor,
with his head and the foreparG of his body
buried in a pile OF straw. stone-dead, where
he had smothereG himself. "Jo's" master
fully believed that he had died Of grief. AS
to whether he actually smothered himself,
or could 90 it in pile of straw, or whether
he just crawled in there to hide his broken
heart and die, may be an open question.
gUNYAN's FLUTE
While Bunyan was in Bedford jail, where
he wrote the Pilgrims Progress, to amuse
himself he took round out of the stool in
his cell, and with his knife made it into q
Rute. Ofcourse the sound, whenever he
played, attracted the keeper, who could
trace 1t to Bunyan's door but no further,
for while he fumbed at the lock, the prison.
err replaced the round and when the door
opened no flute could be seen.
More ingenius still was the device OF
TIE PRISONER IN THE BAsTILE.
You remember that the bastile was pris-
on in France to which people were sent on
very slight pretexts whoever their enemies
at court wanted to get rid OF them. And it
was quite as hard to get out of the prison as
IL was easy to get in. A nobleman who
was kept there thirty-five years, all for moth
ing, for while amused himself by tanning
the rats which swarmed in his room. One
day, after he had been imprisoned about a
year, he happened to notice that a bundle
Of straw which had been brought in to make
fresh bed for him was bound with branch
of elder. "NoW," thought he, ~ will no
longer be dependent on rats for company"
SO he hid the branch. His handg were iron.
ed, and his only tool was his knee-buckle,
but in some way he contrivdd to clear out
the pith and turn the stick into a fageolet.
For thirty. four years this was his sole COM
panion. When he was set free he took the
dageolet away with him and kept ii, long
after the Bastile was destroyed, as memen-
to of his prison life, the only one it was any
pleasure to have.
THE vIoLINIsT AND THE OLD SOLDIER.
An old soldier WHO had been disabled
in the wars, and who had no longer any
means of support, was playing his violin
one evening, on the Prater in Vienna. His
dog held his hat. but no one dropped any,
thing into it, The old man was tired and
hungry he had not the strength to play,
and in despair he sat down on a stone. A
passer~by noticed him, stopped, looked at
him, then said
"Lend me your violin a little while"
Having tuned it, he said again lyon take
the money and I'll play"
And he began to play. The people who
stopped to stare at the gentleman playing a
violin out in the street remained to listen,
delighted with the strains they heard. The
crowd grew larger and larger. The hat
filled up fast. not only with coppers, bat also
with silver and even gold. The dog began
to growl, the hat had never before been 30
heavy to hold. The old man was told to
empty It's contents into his pockets, which
he did, and it began to fill again. After
playing national air the gentleman handed
back the violin and disappeared before he
could be thanked.
"Who is 1t ?''every one asked.
'It IS Armand Boucher, Inc famous violin
player" replied some one "He has done
this for charity, let us follow his example,"
80 saying the speaker made new collec.
ton and gave tne proceeds to the astonished
soldier, who, through the kindness OF Bouch-
or, was now out OF want
DON'T THROW STONES.
Boys, don't throw stones. I have looked
at 1t from every side, and it is a dangerous
business. Nine times out of ten the spirit
that whispers to boys who throw stones.
and prompts them to do it, Is an idle, mis-.
chievous, careless, wicked spirit. r. saws
every time itsees stone in Charities path.
without giving him time to think what NAV
come fit, snow, just see how far, or how
straight, or how high you can throw IT,,
Away it goes, and "Oh just my luck y' q
window is broken.
was once in q beautiful new church
The sexton came down from the rallarr